Casa Blanca

Historical marker location:

Loop 181, Floresville, Texas

( From Floresville take Loop 181 three miles northwest. Marker near Seguin Branch Bridge.)

Marker installed: 1936

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.

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The University of Texas at Austin, founded in 1883, is one of the largest universities in the United States and has produced many notable alumni, including several U.S. presidents.