Our Heroes - Richmond, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 29° 34.975 W 095° 45.722
15R E 232447 N 3275755
The monument pays homage to three men: H. H. Frost, L. E. Gibson and J. M. Shamblin. It is a tribute to men who lost their lives in a political feud in the years after the Civil War. It rises from a pedestal, topped with a stone bird figurine.
Waymark Code: WMX4MG
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/26/2017
Views: 5
Text on front of marker:
These brave and noble sons of Fort Bend County, whose names are here enshrined, gave there lives in order that the people of this county might have a Just, Honest and capable county government and their fellow citizens have reared this monument to their memory and as a promise to them that their principles shall be maintained for all time to come.
Go stranger and to the Jaybirds tell, that for their country's freedom they fell.
Date Created/Placed: March 18, 1896
Address:
402 Morton St.
Richmond, TX 77469
Height: 30 feet
Illuminated: no
Website: [Web Link]
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Visit Instructions:
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