Casa Navarro State Historic Site

The preserved home and commercial buildings of José Antonio Navarro, one of the most important figures in Texas history — a Tejano statesman, rancher, and one of two native-born Texans to sign the Texas Declaration of Independence in 1836. Three limestone structures dating from the 1840s–1850s form the complex: a house, a commercial office, and a kitchen, arranged around a small courtyard.

The site is operated by the Texas Historical Commission and offers a nuanced interpretation of San Antonio's Mexican and Tejano heritage, often overlooked in standard Alamo-centric histories. Small admission fee; closed Sundays and Mondays.

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José Antonio Navarro was one of only two native-born Texans to sign the Texas Declaration of Independence in 1836 — the other was Francisco Ruiz. Both were Tejanos (Mexican Texans), a fact often omitted from popular histories of the Texas Revolution. Navarro later served in the Republic of Texas Congress and the first Texas state legislature. When the U.S. government asked him to sign a loyalty oath renouncing his Mexican citizenship to claim a land grant, he refused.

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