Japanese Tea Garden, San Antonio, Texas

The garden is in an old limestone quarry. The Alamo Cement Company produced cement here for 26 years.

The land was donated to the city in 1899. An oriental style garden was visualized but work did not start until 1918, when private donors provided the funds.

The garden was renamed the Chinese Tea Garden in 1941 because of anti-Japanese sentiment.

The city restored the Japanese Tea Garden name in 1984.

Friends for well over fifty years contemplate the gardens.