DUANE
Duane's take
The official marker tells it this way, and I'm just the one passin' it along. Out here in Wilson County, there's a place called Casa Blanca. White house.
And if these walls could talk, they'd have some stories that stretch all the way back to the very birth of Texas as we know it. This was the home of Don Erasmo Seguin. And Don Erasmo wasn't just anybody with a fine house.
This man was right there — right there at the hinge point of history. Cast your mind back to 1821. By appointment of the Spanish governor himself, Don Erasmo Seguin was the one who inducted Stephen F.
Austin into Texas. Think on that a moment. The man who would become the Father of Texas — and he had to be brought in by somebody.
That somebody was Erasmo Seguin. Three years later, in 1824, Don Erasmo was serving as Texas Deputy to the Mexican Congress. The man moved in the highest circles of power on two different governments' watch.
And then — October 13, 1834. A convention in Bexar. Don Erasmo Seguin stood up and made the first effort to organize a provisional government in Texas.
The first. Before the revolution, before the Republic, before any of it — there was a man in Bexar who said, we ought to have some kind of order around here. And when it was all said and done, Don Erasmo Seguin came home to Casa Blanca.
This place. And he died here. Some houses just hold more history than others.
This is one of them.
What the marker says
Home of Don Erasmo Seguin who died here; in 1856 by appointment of the Spanish governor he inducted Stephen F. Austin into Texas, 1821; Texas Deputy to the Mexican Congress, 1824; on October 13, 1834 in a convention in Bexar he made the first effort to organize a provisional government in Texas.