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Footprints of Fayette (Continued from Page 5A) La Grange. office. Masons. considered nicer than the wood- , attempting to repel However, river conditions Tile 17 In 1849, a local cattle rustler en courthouse. Mexican invaders; 36 men were brought commercial steamboat The last men from the Dawson became the first prisoner in the Kreische, a German stone- killed in what is known as the operations to an end within about and Mier Companies, who had State Penitentiary at Huntsville. mason, completed a new stone Dawson Massacre; 15 prisoners 15 years. not escaped or died in the harsh Discoveries of gold in Califor- courthouse with cupola in 1856. were marched to Perote Prison The county’s first newspaper, conditions of Perote Prison, were nia enticed some locals to seek Kreische built and operated one in southern . The La Grange Intelligencer, be- released in 1844. an easy fortune. of the first breweries in Texas. Later, 250 more Texans were gan publication in February 1844. Three years later, one of the John Murchison, who orga- Tile 20 captured while seeking ven- Tile 16 survivors led a team to retrieve nized The La Grange Company, Diversity increased during the geance at Ciudad Mier in Mexi- Texas became the 28th state the bones of the executed men of died en route to the gold fields. 1850s as Jewish merchants ar- co. When most tried to escape, annexed into the Mier. Some of the men returned, and at rived in La Grange and Wendish but were recaptured, the Black on December 29, 1845. The remains were brought to least one, Jacob Laferre, brought immigrants settled in northwest- Bean Lottery determined who U.S. post offices were estab- Fayette County, as were those of back riches. ern Fayette County. would be executed. lished at Ingram’s Prairie, La the Dawson men from the Salado Tile 19 In 1856, Dubina, the first Czech The others were sent to Perote Grange, Lyons, Round Top and Creek battlefield. Fayette County’s first feder- settlement in Texas, was found- In honor of Fayette County’s Prison. Rutersville in 1846, followed by In 1848, on the sixth anniver- al census in 1850 recorded 2,740 ed by Joseph Peter and 17 other namesake, Fayetteville artist Tile 15 Black Jack two years later. sary of the Dawson Massacre, free citizens and 1,016 enslaved families from Moravia. Pat Johnson created this bust Cotton growing drove the local Mail was transported by pas- the remains of the Dawson and persons. The Biegel settlement boast- of the Marquis de Lafayette that economy for much of its history, senger stagecoaches. Mier men were reinterred on the Round Top held its first Fourth ed a blend of nationalities with is located inside the east en- and slave labor allowed large In 1846, part of southern Fay- bluff overlooking La Grange, now of July parade in 1851. emigrants from France, Prussia, trance to the courthouse. plantations to flourish by the ette County was given up for the called Monument Hill. The first county jail kept pris- Poland, Denmark, Austria and early 1840s when keel boats were formation of Lavaca County. Tile 18 oners ironed and chained or Switzerland. transporting cotton to the coast. Fayetteville was platted by A Masonic Lodge, chartered at lodges. boarded out at great expense. The first citizenship papers In 1844, the first steamboat on Philip Shaver in 1847, and within La Grange on January 15, 1847, In the early days, many prom- A new stone jail finally built in were granted to foreign immi- the Colorado River was built at three years, it had its own post was soon followed by other area inent citizens and leaders were 1853 by Heinrich Kreische was grants in 1857.

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