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La Grange, TX - History
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Welcome to the La Grange Home page. The La Grange Home page provides as much information as possible on La Grange. Knowing La Grange’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within La Grange’s Home page, you will also find La Grange’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
La Grange has a population of 4648. 44.8% of La Grange’s inhabitants are Male, and 55.2 are female. 41.6% of La Grange is married and 71.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $143,321, and the average rent is $653. Household median income in La Grange is $45,492, and the individual median income is $31,834. La Grange’s Ethnic is the following: White(90.3%), Hispanic(38.9%), Black(5.1%), Asian(2.1%), Other(2.1%), Native(0.4%).
After independence, Texas continued to have armed confrontations with Mexican forces over control of the territory between the Rio Grande and the Nueces River. In what is known as the 1842 Dawson Massacre, numerous Texas militia were killed by Mexican forces near San Antonio. Several years later, the remains of those dead and of those from the black bean death lottery (Mier Expedition), were exhumed and reinterred in La Grange in a large common tomb with a sandstone vault.
This took place in a ceremony on September 18, 1848, at the location now known as Monument Hill; more than 1,000 people attended, including former president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston.On January 17, 1849, Heinrich Ludwig Kreische, a recent German immigrant, purchased 172 acres (70 ha) of land which included the tomb.
He built a three-story house and, in 1860, began building a brewery. By 1879, it was the third-largest brewing operation in Texas, with its flagship product being "Kreische's Bluff Beer". Kreische maintained the tomb for the rest of his life, but the tomb and Kreische Brewery began to deteriorate after his death in 1882.
The brewery closed in 1884.The Kreische family asked the city to remove the tomb from their property, as it was frequently vandalized. On April 15, 1905, the Texas Legislature passed a bill to authorize acquisition, by purchase or condemnation, of the 0.36 acres (0.15 ha) of land occupied by the tomb.
The state acquired the land by condemnation on June 24, 1907.In 1933, during the Great Depression, the State Highway Commission fenced the 0.36 acres and agreed to maintain it as a state park, as one of the infrastructure projects of this period. In the same year, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas purchased a new granite vault for the tomb.
For the 1936 Texas Centennial, the Texas Centennial Commission erected a 48-foot (15 m) shellstone monument with an art deco mural to mark the mass grave.In 1949 the state transferred authority for the site to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. In 1956, the citizens of Fayette County purchased 3.54 acres (1.43 ha) around Monument Hill and deeded the land to the state for parkland.
Another 36 acres (15 ha), including the Kreische Brewery and the Kreische Home, were added to the park site in 1977. The complete site, called Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites, opened to the public in 1983, after archaeological studies were completed.Outside La Grange was a brothel known as the Chicken Ranch.
It closed in 1973 after its operations were revealed, largely through the investigative and reporting efforts of Houston television journalist Marvin Zindler.In 1974, a little league team from La Grange won the Texas state championship. The Texas Czech Heritage and Cultural Center is located at 250 Fair Grounds Road in La Grange.
The center constructed a new archives building, aided by a seed donation in 2007 from the estate of Adolph R. Hanslik of Lubbock. Hanslik was known as the "dean of West Texas cotton producers" and was a native of Hallettsville in Lavaca County.
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