379 Kreische Brewery and Monument Hill

Kreische Brewery & Monument Hill State Historic Sites are located in the center of the triangle of San Antonio, Houston, and Austin.
In 1849, a German immigrant & Master stonemason built a three-story house for his family.
In the 1860s, he utilized the spring water from the ravine below his house and started one of the first commercial breweries in Texas.
The monument marks the tomb of the men who died during the Dawson Massacre of September 1842 and the ill-fated Mier expedition of November 1842.
Nearby citizens reinterred their remains here in a common tomb so that they could be honored for their sacrifice. The site is now marked by a 1936 Centennial monument.