Site of a Twin Blockhouse

The granite stone marks where Moore's Fort stood, but the fort itself is no longer here. Harvin and Elizabeth Moore saved the twin blockhouse, moved it to Round Top and restored it, then gave it to the Texas Pioneer Arts Foundation as a Bicentennial gift in 1976. Round Top's own plaque on the building calls it the oldest structure in Fayette County and says Moore founded the county's first church inside it. By 1994 La Grange's American Legion post occupied the original site. Sources disagree on the building date, giving 1826, 1828 or 1831.

What the plaque says

Site of a Twin Blockhouse Built about 1828; used as a place of defense against the Indians and known as Moore's Fort in honor of its builder and owner, John Henry Moore, 1800-1880, noted Indian fighter and commander of the Texans at the Battle of Gonzales, October 2, 1835. The City of La Grange was established May 17, 1831 on his land.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites — 1.2 mi
  A shared tomb on the Colorado River bluff for the men of the Dawson fight and the black bean lottery, beside the ruins of a German stonemason's spring-fed brewery.
• St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Ammannsville) — 8.4 mi
  A wooden Carpenter Gothic church built in 1919 after storm and fire took two before it, its dusty-rose interior painted by an artist whose name was lost for decades.
• Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church (Dubina) — 13 mi
  The church of Texas's first Czech settlement, under a sky-blue painted ceiling that was whitewashed in the 1950s and brought back from faint traces by its own parishioners.
• Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church (High Hill) — 13 mi
  A red brick Gothic Revival church of 1906 in a German farm settlement, where two San Antonio painters spent 1912 faking marble columns and stone vaults on wood.

More markers nearby

• Birthplace of the SPJST — steps away
• The First U. S. Postal Rural Mail Route in Texas — steps away
• W. S. Robson — 0.4 mi
• Fayette County — 0.7 mi