Let’s acknowledge the role of slave labor

City Council delayed the fate of Cape’s Dam & Mill Race this week, but a glaringly disturbing question emerged: are the loudest advocates of Local Historic Landmark status correct on the local history?

Presently, the official Texas Historical Commission monument to Thompson’s Islands reads:  

“With slave labor, the family built a mill on the San Marcos River near this site. Construction and operation of the mill resulted in the creation of three land masses in the river channel which became known as Thompson’s Islands.”