Aerial View Battleship Texas and San Jacinto Monument

Celebrating the legacy of the mighty USS Texas, the most powerful naval force of its time, Battleship Texas is the only surviving U.S. Navy vessel to have fought in both World Wars including Operation Overlord, also known as D-Day, Operation Detachment at Iwo Jima and Operation Iceberg at Okinawa. Turned into the first battleship memorial museum in the United States in 1948, Battleship Texas was commissioned as the flagship of the Texas Navy to commemorate the anniversary of Texas Independence. Permanently anchored on the Buffalo Bayou and the Houston Ship Channel in 1983, Battleship Texas is now a charge of the Texas Parks and Wildlife on the site of the San Jacinto Battleground. SAN JACINTO MONUMENT A 567.31-foot-high obelisk, the San Jacinto Monument is topped with a Lone Star—the iconic symbol of Texas. The towering column commemorates the site of the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Constructed between 1936 and 1939, the monument was dedicated on April 21, 1939, as part of the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site and is the world’s tallest monumental column. Visitors can ride an elevator to the monument’s observation deck for an aerial view of Houston and the Battleship Texas. Located inside the base of the monument, the San Jacinto Museum of History focuses on the history of the Battle of San Jacinto and Texas culture and heritage in general. The entire San Jacinto Battlefield was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1992.

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