Day 11: On to Washington

While Travis, Crockett and Bowie were beating off the Mexicans at The Alamo, Sam Houston and 58 other Texans were declaring independence and writing a constitution at Washington-on-the-Brazos, a little ways north of Houston. So we left San Antonio heading east toward Washington.

We stopped at the Sebastopol State Historical Park in Seguin, Texas. This house is an early concrete house. The front room is large with windows and large doors on three sides. Very light and airy. The bedrooms in the back also open onto the large side porches. The kitchen is on the ground floor in the back of the house.

We camped at Navasota municipal park, near the airport. This costs $10. Since we did not have $10 in cash, we drove into Navasota to use an ATM machine. This was Halloween night. Kids literally lined the sidewalks waiting for candy.

During our drive to Navasota we passed lots of blacks in the country. East Texas was a cotton growing region with a numerous cotton planations before the Civil War. During the Civil War, slaveholders in other parts of the south sent their human property to Texas away from the Yankee invaders who freed slaves.