This event was actually the reason for our initial visit to La Grange in 2010, during which we decided, while gazing upon the Fayette County Courthouse, to visit all 254 County Courthouses in Texas. It was the beginning of the end. And I didn't realize that our visits were EXACTLY 6 years apart (12/17 2010 & 2016) until I uploaded the older photos here. 😀
Fayette County Courthouse, La Grange, 12/17/10
Kreische house, 2010
View from Monument Hill & Kreische Brewery, 2010
Kreische Brewery ruins, 2010
Kreische Brewery sign, 2010
Us, 12/17/2010
Us, Fayette County Courthouse, 12/17/16
Trail of Lights, 2016
Kreische house, Trail of Lights, 2016
Guitarist, Kreische House, 2016
The Monument and tomb, 2016
Trail of Lights, 2016
Tile mural of the Black Bean Lottery, 2016
Trail of Lights, 2016
2016
La Grange is a cool town - there is a lovely restaurant, Bistro 108, where we ate dinner both years. The cemetery has some of the most fantastic stone monuments in it - we haven't seen another cemetery that compares. La Grange had a highly skilled stonemason at one point and it shows. Weikel's Bakery is always worth a stop - in addition to wonderful kolaches (and my favorite, the Czech shortbread), it has clean restrooms and a nice gift shop. The Courthouse is gorgeous inside and is unique among Texas courthouses in its design. The old jail is now a museum, but has the cells inside still, so one can pretend they're locked up!
