P Street between Center 7 Luella. Constructed in 1986, using building techniques of 1830, including hauling logs to site with horse team. Authentic furnishings, garden. After retreats and disasters halfway across Texas, Sam Houston's small army turned on Mexican General Santa Anna's superior forces and routed them. Commemorating the decisive battle, San Jacinto Monument rises 570 feet above flat coastal plain.
Famous monument is constructed of reinforced concrete faced site of Texas fossilized buff limestone.
The multi-image presentation utilizes 42 projectors. Another landmark of the park is Battleship Texas, moored in permanent slip at battleground. One of the few monuments of its kind in the world, it is only survivor of the pre-World War I dreadnoughts. Battleship was presented to State of Texas by U.S. Navy. Commissioned shortly before World War I, the venerable warship served in that conflict and in World War II as flagship in 1944 D-Day invasion commanded by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, a native of Denison, Texas.