A Visit to the San Jacinto Monument - April 18th, 2004
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Approaching the monument at the main gate

The monument is 570 feet tall

Main entrance and south side of the monument

West side from where the Texan's attacked

North side of the monument

The East Side beyond which the Mexican Army camped

1,800 ft long by 200 ft wide reflecting pool

The corner of the reflecting pool

Time to call the pool man!

Memorial to those killed or MIA in Vietnam, 1973

Lilies grow between the 1973 memorials

The original San Jacinto Monument

Dedicated in Galveston in 1881

Later moved to the cemetery near the Texan camp

It served as The Monument until replaced in 1939

Song played via drum & fife during the battle

The cemetery also makes a nice picnic area

Sundial built by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas in 1936

Lorenzo de Zavala Plaza

List of those buried in the cemetery

State erected monument to the first Republic of Texas
Vice President, Lorenzo de Zavala

USS San Jacinto CG56 was commissioned here in 1988

The Houston Ship Channel passes the battleground

Monument honoring the masons of the Texas Revolution

The big list of Texan Masons

The Battleship Texas, BB-35

Commissioned in 1914 - over 90 years ago

BB35 fought in both WWI and WWII

Only surviving dreadnought battleship left

The San Jacinto Inn restaurant, now closed for two decades

Lynchburg ferry near the Monument Inn

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