ScavengerTexas State Cemetery Hunt
Visit https://tspb.texas.gov/prop/tsc/tsc/cemetery.html to learn more about the Texas State Cemetery. Then see if you can answer the following questions.
1. What is the speed limit on highway 165?
2. What are the columbarium walls that flank the entrance to the cemetery made of?
3. How many Medal of Honor recipients are buried on the cemetery grounds?
4. What was the second memorial to be installed on the cemetery grounds?
5. Who spoke at the Purple Heart Monument dedication?
6. How many Confederate veterans and their spouses are buried at the cemetery?
7. Who designed and constructed the monument to General Albert S. Johnston?
8. Who is the first and only Texas Governor to be impeached from office?
9. Where is Susanna Dickinson buried?
10. Who was the first African American to be buried at the Texas State Cemetery?
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figure of a cowboy on horseback. Why was the monument given as a a as given monument the was Why horseback. on cowboy a of figure
10. Constance Whitney Warren, from New York, created this life-size life-size this created York, New from Warren, Whitney Constance 10.
9. Who presented this monument to the State of Texas in 1951? in Texas of State the to monument this presented Who 9.
base. What is the item placed on the pillar? pillar? the on placed item the is What base.
morial in Washington D.C. It is a granite pillar with Texas written on the the on written Texas with pillar granite a is It D.C. Washington in morial
8. This is a replica of Texas’ contribution to the National World War II Me II War World National the to contribution Texas’ of replica a is This 8. -
sits atop the monument? the atop sits
Texans killed or missing-in-action during the Korean War. What figure figure What War. Korean the during missing-in-action or killed Texans
7. This star-shaped red granite monument lists the names of the 1723 1723 the of names the lists monument granite red star-shaped This 7.
6. What is the Pioneer Woman holding in her left arm? arm? left her in holding Woman Pioneer the is What 6.
Peace Officers? Peace
5. When did Stephen F Austin commission the first ten Texas Texas ten first the commission Austin F Stephen did When 5.
4. When was the Tejano Monument erected? Monument Tejano the was When 4.
3. How many men and women from Texas died in the Vietnam War? War? Vietnam the in died Texas from women and men many How 3.
2. When were the slaves of Texas freed? Texas of slaves the were When 2.
1. Who sculpted the Price of Liberty Memorial? Memorial? Liberty of Price the sculpted Who 1.
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