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How The Old Historic Oak Received Its Scars

  • This detail from an 1895 photograph shows the Historic oak laden with Spanish moss in front of the old red brick Sinks building [PHO 1981.54.9], courtesy of the Fayette Heritage Museum and Archives.
    This detail from an 1895 photograph shows the Historic oak laden with Spanish moss in front of the old red brick Sinks building [PHO 1981.54.9], courtesy of the Fayette Heritage Museum and Archives.
Part I of II Back on September 15, 1842, Nicholas Mosby Dawson organized his ill-fated company under the branches of a large oak tree on the square in La Grange. They planned to come to the aid of San Antonio by repelling an invasion by Mexico. However, three days later, in a fight outside San Antonio near Salado Creek, Dawson and 35 of his men were killed. Two escaped, but 15 others were…

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