Groundbreaking.

ID: 1247 | This file appears in: San Jacinto Monument
Groundbreaking.
On April 21, 1936, Jones participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for the monument alongside Sam Houston's 82-year-old son, Andrew Jackson Houston. The pair drove a pair of longhorns pulling a century-old plow.

Video of the event is available at the Texas Archive of the Moving Image ( http://www.texasarchive.org/
library/index.php?title=
The_Orris_D._Brown_Collection,_no._2_-_San_Jacinto_Memorial_(1936-39)) | Source: San Jacinto Museum
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