The building is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the world's tallest stone column memorial. The San Jacinto Museum of History, housed in the 570-foot San Jacinto Monument, is located on the battlefield where Texas won its independence from Mexico on April 21, 1836. The Monument will be undergoing a historic restoration for the next few years. The project poses no threat to the safety of park visitors, so the Monument will remain open throughout the restoration. The Museum is a private, non-profit, educational organization with a collection which spans more than four hundred years of early Texas history, from the Spanish conquest through Texas in the nineteenth century.
Emphasis is on colonial Texas as a part of Mexico and the Republic of Texas.
The Battle of San Jacinto. Visitors can also elect to ride to the Monument's observation floor 489 feet above the Battleground for views of the city and the Houston Ship Channel. She returned to Atlantic Fleet operations in the fall of 1914. Late in 1918 she guarded the German Fleet in route to its surrender anchorage and escorted President Wilson to peace talks in France. She embarked President Coolidge for a trip to Cuba in 1928.