 In 1953, Maverick's granddaughter Rena Maverick Green spearheaded the San Antonio Conservation Society's successful campaign to block the construction of an underground parking lot at the park.After the Civil War, United Daughters of the Confederacy commissioned the design and construction of a Confederate statue in memory of the common soldiers of the Civil War in what became Travis Park.Designed by Louisiana artist Elizabeth Montgomery and constructed by Llano stone carver Frank Teich in 1899, it was the first monument designed by a woman in the United States and the first monument of its kind ever placed in San Antonio.