On the surface there is not much to this simple room with wooden floors and a wooden table set atop some old barrels. But underneath there is a piece of Texas history as big as the state. This photo is of the inside of a reconstructed replica of the hall in which 59 men gathered to draft and sign a declaration of Independence from Mexico on March 2nd 1836 in the small town of Washington. While Santa Anna was just beginning his siege of the Alamo these 59 men signed their name to a piece of paper that made Texas a sovereign nation. I always enjoy historic sites as I try to take myself back to the day in history and put myself there as if I was watching the events unfold in real life. As I was standing inside I thought about the day the convention opened and how a unusual cold snap blew through in which the temperature dropped to 33 degrees and all the delegates had to cover the windows and doors were pieces of cotton cloth to tack over the openings. Everyone there knew exactly what they were doing and the history they were setting in motion. Working throughout the day and night the delegates declared independence and drafted a Constitution and Texas the Nation was born.
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