where is sam houston's memorial statue at
The Sam Houston Statue. Huntsville offers a lot of atypical attractions for tourists. As the center of the Texas penal system, it has, on display at the Texas Prison Museum, the Old Sparky where over three hundred criminals met their end. Another popular tourist attraction is the Sam Houston statue located at the southern part of Huntsville. The statue is the tallest of all American heroes. Sam Houstons statue stands at a height of a towering sixty-seven feet atop a ten foot base. The memorial is named, A Tribute to Courage. Sam Houstons concrete statue bearing a walking cane towers above Interstate 45.