Casa Blanca

Casa Blanca was a large white stone house on a rise above the San Antonio River, and for decades travelers between the coast and San Antonio steered by it. Teamsters, German immigrants and Stephen F. Austin were guests of Erasmo Seguín, who was known for his hospitality. During the Revolution he moved his family east, then supplied the Texas army from the ranch's cattle and crops. He died here on November 7, 1857. A windstorm toppled the crumbling walls in 1942, and the family graves were already lost by 1913. Only a pile of stones remains, on private land.

What the plaque says

Casa Blanca 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.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mission Espada and the Espada Aqueduct — 19 mi
  The southernmost San Antonio mission and the oldest Spanish aqueduct in the United States, still carrying river water over Sixmile Creek to the fields after nearly three centuries.
• Mission San Juan — 20 mi
  The mission near the river bend where the San Antonio got its name in 1691, with an unfinished church foundation and farm fields still watered by an eighteenth-century acequia.
• Longhorn Museum — 21 mi
  Atascosa County in one roadside museum: longhorn-and-mustang ranching, a moved railroad depot and caboose, a horse-drawn hearse and the town that calls itself the birthplace of the cowboy.
• Panna Maria — 22 mi
  The Silesian village on a plateau above the San Antonio River that claims the oldest permanent Polish settlement in America, with a church of 1878 and a ceiling found again in 2000.

More markers nearby

• Rancho de Pataguilla — 1.6 mi
• Near Site of Lodi Ferry — 1.6 mi
• Cemetery of Canary Islanders — 1.7 mi
• Site of Old Town: Lodi — 2.1 mi