More Alamo stuff

This is inside the Long Barrack patio, on the south wall. It memorializes Clara Driscoll, of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. She was an heiress who put up the money to purchase the land and Long Barrack building. If she had not, it was to be sold, demolished and replaced by a park and hotel. We would not have the building in which so many Texans made their last stand at The Alamo. She was greatly assisted in the effort by Adina DeZavala who, in my mind, does not get nearly the credit she deserves. Plaques were placed later to make up for that, to a degree. 

 This is on the outside of the south wall, along Crockett St. The back gardens, or arbor as we call it, were constructed in the 1930s as part of President Roosevelt's WPA, the Works Project Administration, which provided jobs for so many to help get us out of the Depression.