Above Image: Terry’s Texas Rangers – by Pompeo Coppini
2014 Vacation: A week in Austin, Texas.
Vacation Notes: My first stop was a guided tour of the Texas State Capitol building.
I would be covering it in three posts..
[1] Guided tour to the Texas Capitol building
[2] Monuments and Memorials in the Capitol building campus
[3] Goddess of Liberty atop Capitol building dome.. click here..
Photo Gallery: Monuments and Memorials in Texas Capitol building campus
All the photos in the post are taken by me,
but all the information is from the official website.. click here..
- Heros of the Alamo [ Erected 1891]
- Volunteer Firemen [ Erected 1896 (modified in 1905]
- Confederate Soldiers [ Erected beginning in 1903 by surviving comrades]
- Terry’s Teaxs Rangers – by Pompeo Coppini [Erected 1907 by surviving comrades]
- Hood’s Texas Brigade – by Pompeo Coppini [Erected 1910 by surviving comrades and friends]
- Texas Cowboy – by Constance Whitney Warren [Erected 1925]
- The Hiker [Erected 1951]
- Statue of Liberty replica [Erected 1951 by the Boy Scouts of America]
- Veterans of the 36th infantry [Erected 1959.]
- The Ten Commandments [Erected 1961 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles of Texas]
- World War I Memorial [Erected 1961 by the membership of the Department of Texas, Veterans of Foreign Wars]
- Disabled American Veterans of Texas
- Pearl Harbor [Erected 1989 by the Pearl Harbor Survivors of Texas]
- Texas Pioneer Woman – by Linda Sioux Henley [Erected 1998 by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, District VIII.]
- Korean War Veterans Memorial [Erected 1999 by the Texas Lone Star Chapter of the Korean War Veterans Association]
- Tribute to Texas children – by Lawrence Ludtke [Erected 1998 by the school children of Texas]
- Texas Peace Officers Memorial [Erected 1999 by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement in cooperation with the State Preservation Board.]
- World War II Memorial [Erected and dedicated 2007 by the Texas World War II Memorial Committee in cooperation with the State Preservation Board. ]
- Tejano Monument [Erected 2012 by the Tejano Monument, Inc.]
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