Appelt Hill

The Monument Hill-Kreische Brewery State Historic Site is located near U.S. Highway 77 on a high bluff on the south side of the Colorado River a mile south of La Grange in central Fayette County. In 1848 the site was chosen as a cemetery for the Texans who died in the Dawson Massacre of 1842, for the dead of the Texan Santa Fe and Mier expeditions, qqv and for those captured during Gen. Adri?n Woll 's raid on San Antonio. A small tomb was built overlooking the river, and on September 18, 1848, the remains were buried there with full military honors in a ceremony attended by Sam Houston and other dignitaries.