Site of the Home of Juan Antonio Padilla

Juan Antonio Padilla built a career in the Spanish and Mexican bureaucracy. Around 1810 he was a cavalry officer at San Antonio, and by the late 1810s he was secretary to the commandant general of the eastern Provincias Internas. At the end of 1819 he wrote a report on Texas Indian tribes that Jean Louis Berlandier later used. He was appointed general land commissioner in 1828 and arrested in April 1830 for murder and fraud after issuing only three titles; the Handbook says the charges may have been political. He died in Houston on August 6, 1839.

What the plaque says

Site of the Home of Juan Antonio Padilla A native of Nacogdoches Land commissioner, 1829 Vice-governor of the State of Coahuila and Texas Active in the Texas Revolution Died in Houston in July, 1839. His wife, Maria Montes del Padilla, died here, August 14, 1846 Marked by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

More markers nearby

• Westminster Presbyterian Church — steps away
• Site of the Mission Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe — steps away
• Site of the Home of Charles S. Taylor — 0.2 mi
• Nacogdoches University — 0.3 mi