Landmark Inn Complex

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Marker Text: These limestone structures along Eagle Pass - San Antonio Road at the Medina River ford were once centers of trade, travel, industry, and domestic line. Alsatian colonist Michel Simon  settled here in 1844 followed by Caesar Monod built a one-story home and store with a separate kitchen in 1849. Within two decades, John and Rowena Vance had converted Simon's home into a  wash house, built a  residence, and enlarged the store to include a two-story hotel. A mill was built on the river  in 1854 which Joseph Courland modernized  after 1876 and J. T. Lawler  used for hydroelectricity after 1925.  Ruth Lawler kept the tradition of hospitality at her "Landmark Inn" before deeding it to the state in 1974. (1965) 

Marker No: 18053

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Texas Historic Landmark

Geographic: 29° 21.299′ N, 98° 52.478′ W

Location: ​Florella and Florence Streets, Castroville