Cornerstone Monument

ID: 765 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
This file appears in: The Texas Cotton Palace
Cornerstone Monument

In 1940 the cornerstone from the Cotton Palace's main building was mounted on a slab of Georgian granite and given a new home at the apex of Lovers Leap in Cameron Park. Pictured is Albert T. Clifton, a long time director of the Cotton Palace and the 1922 exposition's King Cotton.

This file appears in: The Texas Cotton Palace

By Jim Stingley
When Stephen F. Austin led the first Anglo-American settlers into Texas including areas along the Brazos River, they brought with them their strong agricultural tradition based on cotton-growing. From the period of annexation until well into the…