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Nolte & Sons Bank, by James Riely Gordon, the master architect of Texas Courthouses.
Steeple of the Chapel of the Abiding Presence at Texas Lutheran University, Henry Steinbomer architect.
Seguin (/s i n/ sig-een) is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Guadalupe County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census the populace was 25,175. By 2015, the populace was estimated to be 27,864. Seguin is one of the earliest suburbs in Texas, established just sixteen months after the Texas Revolution.
The frontier settlement was a cradle of the Texas Rangers and home to the jubilated Captain Jack Hays, perhaps the most famous Ranger of all. The New Deal transformed the city's enhance face with Art Deco-style City Hall, Courthouse, Jail, and fountain, as well as storm sewers, sidewalks, and three swimming pools (one for Anglos, one for blacks, one for Hispanics).
The town memorialized its centennial by opening Max Starcke Park, with a golf course, a pavilion, picnic tables and BBQ pits along a scenic river drive, and a curving dam that created one of the most beautiful waterfalls in Texas.
To preserve some of the historic character of the town, Seguin became one of the state's first Main Street cities, and the downtown precinct was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
On the northern edge of the South Texas Plains, Seguin appreciates a mild winter.
The Texas Agricultural Education and Heritage Center - The "Big Red Barn" helps kids and the rest learn the mechanics and history of farming in Central Texas.
A journalist declared Seguin "The Mother of Concrete Cities".
Heritage Museum - Artifacts from paleo-Indian archeological sites, a display on the Wilson Pottery (the first company in Texas successfully directed by ex-slaves after the Civil War), and keep chests of other historical collections that illustrate area's the rich multi-ethnic heritage; positioned downtown. The earliest still-surviving Protestant church in Texas, assembled in 1849 for a Methodist Conference, outlived the state's older churches lost to storms, fires, and progress (torn down to make way for newer, larger ones).
Texas Theatre - Built in the town's petroleum boom (opened March 1931), designed by Marvin Eichenroht, a "local boy" with a degree from M.I.T.
Seguin itself has been described as "a big pecan orchard with a small town in it". A new pecan-shaped sculpture, four feet longer than the previous record holder, was unveiled on July 4, 2011 to ensure its place as the "World's Largest." It can be seen at the Texas Agricultural Education and Heritage Center.
True Women - Seguin is one of the settings of the 1994 Janice Woods Windle historical novel True Women. The author interval up here, learning the women's side of history from family members.
Max Starcke Park - Windshield Tourism: a scenic River Drive passes "one of the Most Beautiful Waterfalls in Texas" and the "jade-green water" of the Guadalupe, beneath towering cypress and pecans; Golf, 18-hole regulation course; Picnic Areas and Pavilions; Little League Baseball-Softball complex; Volleyball, Basketball, Tennis courts; two Paddling Trails for Canoes and Kayaks; Kids' Kingdom Playscape.
Seguin Aquatic Center - Wave Pool, Swimming, Party Area Seguin Events Complex / Fairgrounds Park - home of the Guadalupe County Fair & PRCA Rodeo (held the second weekend of October), a Rodeo Arena, Baseball Fields, 14 Volleyball Courts, Meeting Spaces, used as the site of Buck Fever and other annual affairs Seguin Central Park - Statue of Tejano hero Juan N.
Seguin Outdoor Learning Center - Website Max Starcke Park Golf Course - 18-hole course along the river, the initial 9 holes designed by John Bredemus, a prolific course designer called "the father of Texas golf", the 9 holes added later and designed by Shelley Mayfield make their way through a former pecan orchard Lake Seguin / Seguin Paddling Trail - Canoeing and Kayaking at Max Starcke Park.
Lake Mc - Queeney Recreational Area - "The Water Ski Capital of Texas" July: The Biggest Small Town 4 July Parade in Texas, Mayor's Luncheon, fireworks.
"Official Pecan Pie of Texas" contest, Ghost Story tours of haunted buildings, and Saints Alive! MTS produces four no-charge children's concerts each season; two in Seguin and two in New Braunfels.
The symphony was established in 1978 by Anita Windecker, a music professor at Texas Lutheran University, with the support of leaders of both communities.
Seguin, a hero-on-horseback in Central Park, by Erik Christianson, 2000 Statue of Martin Luther, in front of Beck College Center, near entrance to Texas Lutheran ground off Court at Prexy Dr., by Elmer P.
In addition, the county boasts 80 Texas State Historical Markers, with about 25 of those inside Seguin's town/city limits.
Seguin was represented in the Texas House of Representatives from 1983 to 2010 by the Republican Edmund Kuempel.
He was noted for helping to get the State of Texas to restore the 19th century mansion called Sebastopol and operate it as a Historic Site for 25 years.
John Kuempel, Edmund Kuempel's son, won the special election on December 14 of that year to succeed his father in the District 44 seat in the Texas House.
House of Representatives as part of Texas' 15th Congressional District, since 2012.
Seguin is positioned in the center of Guadalupe County at 29 34 28 N 97 57 55 W (29.574329, -97.965332). It is 35 miles (56 km) east-by-northeast of downtown San Antonio, on Interstate 10, which serves Seguin with five exit.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Seguin has a total region of 34.7 square miles (89.8 km2), of which 34.5 square miles (89.3 km2) are territory and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km2), or 0.57%, are water. The Guadalupe River flows through the southern side of the city, reaching the Gulf of Mexico south of Victoria.
The town/city is served by the Seguin Independent School District, with about 8,000 students in 14 schools: Under the 2013 accountability ratings released by the Texas Education Agency, Seguin ISD and each of its campuses received "Met Standard" ratings based upon the new performance standards.
The Seguin High football team, the Matadors, appreciates a traditional rivalry with New Braunfels H.S.
James Catholic School A Historical Marker notes initial concrete portion from 1854 makes this the earliest continuously occupied school building in Texas.
Navarro Independent School District Serves students in northern Seguin and non-urban areas beyond.
Seguin Lifegate Christian School Texas Lutheran University, with about 1,400 students, is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. TLU was ranked #3 among the Best West Regional universities by U.S.
News & World Report 2013. It has a diverse student body, with 27% Hispanic, 10% African-American, and only 20% describing themselves as Lutheran. Texas Lutheran recently joined the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, NCAA Division III, so its squads play Austin College, Colorado College, Centenary College in Shreveport, Schreiner University, Southwestern University, Trinity University, and the University of Dallas. Central Texas Technology Center, one of The Alamo Colleges, is positioned north of Seguin.
Now one of the finest hospitals in Central Texas, with 750 employees supporting 65 physician specialists.
Jacob De Cordova, territory agent, Member, Texas House of Representatives, 1808 1868 Flores, rancher, served with Juan Seguin (his brother-in-law) in Texas Revolution, 1801-1868 John Coffee "Jack" Hays Texas Ranger, 1817-1883 John Ireland, Governor of Texas, 1827 1896 Jose Antonio Navarro, rancher, signer of Texas Declaration of Independence, 1795-1871 Seguin is one of the very several metros/cities in the nation with competing daily papers.
Seguin Daily News Its offices are in Starcke Park, near the Seguin waterworks.
The United States Postal Service operates the Seguin Post Office at 531 West Court St.
Tri City Taxi Service is based in Seguin.
Texas 46.svg State Highway 46, Seguin-New Braunfels-Boerne.
Texas 123.svg State Highway 123, San Marcos-Seguin-Stockdale-Karnes City.
Toll Texas 130.svg State Highway 130 (Toll Road), off I-35 Georgetown-Austin-Lockhart to I-10 at Seguin.
The Seguin region was once inhabited by the native hunter-gatherer Indians of Texas.
Jose Antonio Navarro, one of the earliest pioneer and an meaningful figure of Texas history, advanced a ranch near Seguin. In 1831, territory was granted to Umphries Branch by the Mexican government.
Between 1827 and 1835, twenty-two families came to the region as part of the De - Witt Colony; by 1833 there were forty territory titles in the region, fourteen of which received grants directly from the Mexican government. In 1836, John Gladden King lived near Seguin.
The town of Seguin was established August 12, 1838, 16 months after Texas won its independence at the Battle of San Jacinto, making it one of the earliest suburbs in Texas.
At this time the Seguin region was a part of Gonzales County.
Its initial name was Walnut Springs, but was changed just six months later to honor San Jacinto veteran and then a Senator of the Republic of Texas, Juan Seguin. The surveyors' plan for the town/city included a chief north south street that ran straight and flat for a mile and more.
Manuel Flores, veteran of San Jacinto and brother-in-law of Juan Seguin, established a ranch just south of Seguin in 1838. It became a safe-haven for San Antonio families and a staging point for counterattack when Bexar was overrun in 1842 by Santa Anna's forces under Rafael Vasquez and Adrian Woll. Leading the resistance forces from this locale was Texas Ranger John Coffee "Jack" Hays.
Their home known as "Hardscramble" still stands and was designated a Texas State Centennial historic site in 1936. Colonel James Clinton Neill, commander of the Alamo, was known to be buried here.
The site was also historically marked amid the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. Seguin was titled the county seat, and Guadalupe County was organized, early in 1845, as Texas became a state.
A several years later, another town was laid out on the west side of Seguin, on territory that had been titled by the Alamo defender, Thomas R.
Miller and sold in 1840 to Ranger James Campbell in partnership with Arthur Swift and Andrew Neill. This region became part of Seguin inside a several years, but 150 years later the east west streets still do not match up to cross through the old Guadalupe Street border.
When Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels and his German colonists were making their way in 1845 to the territory they had bought to settle, Calvin Turner and Asa Sowell from Seguin were hired to guide them.
Later Seguin became a stopping point and trade center for German immigrants along their route from the ports of Indianola and Galveston to the German settlements around New Braunfels and Fredericksburg. Many Germans en route heard of the difficult times in those Hill Country settlements and decided instead to buy territory and settle around Seguin.
After Texas became a state, many pioneer appeared from the Old South, bringing in total hundreds of slaves, though only a several plantation owners held more than a dozen slaves.
This Guadalupe High School, now a part of the St James parochial school, was recognized by a historical marker in 1962 as the earliest continuously used school building in Texas.
Called "the Mother of Concrete Cities" in the 1870s, the town once had nearly 100 structures made of limecrete, including the courthouse, schools, churches, homes, cisterns, and many walls.
There were so many limecrete walls and corrals that Seguin gave the effect of being a walled city.
In 1857, Frederick Law Olmsted, later famous as the landscape architect of New York's Central Park, toured Texas, writing dispatches to the New York Times.
One surviving concrete home, the Sebastopol House; assembled in 1856, is a Texas Historical Commission Landmark and is on the National Register of Historic Places due to its unusual limecrete assembly and architectural style. The historic Wilson Pottery site is on Capote Road, near Seguin.
During Reconstruction, the freed slaves in Seguin organized their own congregation, the Second Baptist Church, and, in 1876, a school that came to be known as the Lincoln School.
The barns reached Seguin in 1876 en route to San Antonio, when the earliest stockyards in Texas, the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad chartered on February 11, 1850, as the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway Company assembled the first Seguin depot.
John Ireland was mayor of Seguin in 1858.
Elected the 18th Governor of Texas 1883 1887, he had an meaningful part in the assembly of the Texas State Capitol insisting on using native stone, red granite from the Hill Country, freshwater limestone imported from Indiana.
He also presided over the opening of the University of Texas at Austin.
From before the Civil War until at least World War II, cotton was the cash crop of the small-town farms, and the county had at least a dozen gins, with three in the town of Seguin.
De - Laney, helped start the Texas Pecan Growers Association.
Seguin has been called 'a big orchard with a small town in it' because almost every home is shaded by a pecan tree in the yard.
The City of Seguin took over the dam and electric plant in 1907.
In 1912, people of Seguin flourishing a struggling church school to the town/city with cash, and 15 acres of territory donated by Louis Fritz.
It interval to a junior college into a four-year college to turn into today's Texas Lutheran University, with some 1,400 students and boasting high rankings on the U.S.
With the Darst Field, Seguin became a supply center, and inhabitants were able to rent out rooms to petroleum field workers for cash even amid the worst years of the Great Depression of the 1930s.
As a result, Seguin was able to collect taxes when other suburbs just had to give up.
Under the leadership of the prominent mayor, Max Starcke, Seguin was transformed, with a new Post Office, a new Art Deco City Hall, Courthouse, jailhouse and fountain in Central Park, new storm sewers and sidewalks, and a small park along Walnut Branch, with rustic contemporary walls that protected the historic springs and traced the route of the stagecoach as it headed west through town.
The little town/city had three swimming pools, one for whites, one for blacks at the segregated high school, and one for Spanish speaking people at the Juan Seguin school.
The nine-hole course was designed by John Bredemus, a prolific course designer who has been called "the father of Texas golf".
Seguin has three sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International, Inc (SCI): List of exhibitions in Central Texas a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Seguin city, Texas".
A survey of the technologies contributing to the concrete era of Seguin, Texas in the mid-nineteenth century (Masters of Architecture thesis).
Patrick Danner: Auto supplier to problematic 300 jobs in Seguin Texas Agricultural Education and Heritage Center Seguin Convention and Visitors Bureau.
"Welcome to the Official Web Site of the Seguin Convention and Visitors Bureau | Seguin, Texas | Seguin CVB".
"TPWD: Seguin Paddling Trail (Lake Seguin) | | Texas Paddling Trails".
"National Register of Historical Places - TEXAS (TX), Guadalupe County".
"Texas Lutheran University | Best College | US News".
"About Texas Lutheran University".
"Seguin Economic Development Corporation | City of Seguin | Living, Visiting and Doing Business in Seguin, TX".
"Post Office Location - SEGUIN ANNEX." , Texas Settlement a b "Seguin, Texas", Handbook of Texas Online "Sowell Family", Texas A&M University Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl, "GUADALUPE COUNTY," Handbook of Texas Online , accessed April 29, 2011.
Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Hall, "KING, JOHN GLADDEN", Handbook of Texas Online , accessed May 14, 2011.
Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Famous Trees of Texas TAMU Handbook of Texas Online Handbook of Texas Online Handbook of Texas Online Handbook of Texas Online Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Texas Transportation Museum Texas Lutheran University Website "Sister Cities International: Online Directory: Texas, USA".
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