Moore's Fort, near La Grange in Fayette County, was a twin blockhouse built in 1828 by John Henry Moore as a place of defense against Indians. The Texas Centennial Commission placed a marker at the site in 1936. The American Legion of La Grange occupied the site in 1994.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: La Grange High School, Fayette County: Past and Present (La Grange, Texas, 1976). Harold Schoen, comp., Monuments Erected by the State of Texas to Commemorate the Centenary of Texas Independence (Austin: Commission of Control for Texas Centennial Celebrations, 1938).
-Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/MM/uem3.html (accessed September 5, 2006).
John Henry Moore is perhaps best remembered as the commander of the Texas forces at the Battle of Gonzalez. In this first battle of the Texas Revolution, this flag was waved at the approaching Mexican soldiers.
