One of my favorite downtown walks is around the grounds of the Texas State Capitol. Over 20 unique and interesting monuments and statues can be found on the 22 acres surrounding the huge capitol building. Many are war memorials, some are for the Civil War. I’ve attended dedications for the Tejano Monument and the Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument. By year-end, a new Texas African-American History Memorial will be unveiled.

South Lawn

Texas African-American History Memorial

Tejano Monument

Texas Cowboy

Hood’s Texas Brigade

Heroes of the Alamo

Terry’s Texas Rangers

Volunteer Firemen

Confederate Soldiers

East Lawn

Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument

Texas Peace Officers’ Memorial

Disabled American Veterans of Texas

North Lawn

Texas Korean War Veterans Memorial

Texas World War I Veterans Memorial

Statue of Liberty Replica (donated by the Boy Scouts of America)

Pearl Harbor Survivors Association

Texas World War II Memorial (an exact replica of the Texas Pillar at the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.)

Texas Pioneer Woman

Tribute to Texas Schoolchildren

Ten Commandments (subject of a 2005 US Supreme Court case)

West Lawn

Texas National Guard

Texas Spanish-American War Memorial

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