Footprints of Fayette

The hot el pictured behind th is team of oxen in the 1860s was located where the Lester Hotel later stood, in the northeast corner of the intersection of Colorado and Washington Streets in La Grange. Photo Courtesy of Fayette Heritage Museum & Archives
The hot el pictured behind th is team of oxen in the 1860s was located where the Lester Hotel later stood, in the northeast corner of the intersection of Colorado and Washington Streets in La Grange. Photo Courtesy of Fayette Heritage Museum & Archives

A Historical Column From The Fayette County Historical Commission

Fayette County Ox-Team Caravans to Mexico Duringthe Civil War – Part 2 Fayette County Historical Commission 

Edited here only for brevity, this is the second part of an article written by Leonie Rummel Weyand and printed in the Oct. 19, 1933 issue of the La Grange Journal.

George Huebner continued, from his story in Part 1: “Fayet…