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Seguin is a city in and the
county seat of Guadalupe County,
Texas, United States. As of the
2010 census, the city population
was 25,175.
Wikipedia
City of Seguin, Texas
Seguin, Texas Hydro Electric
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Seguin is small enough to
have a friendly feeling. A town
where tree-lined streets are
graced by Queen Anne mansions,
charming bungalows, and other
comfortable homes.
A
community of neighborhoods where
families live among people of
all incomes, ages, and
backgrounds. Here good public
schools are a proud tradition.
And a fine park stretches along
the beautiful Guadalupe River.
Seguin is big enough to
boast a top-rated university and
a well-respected hospital. Over
25,000 folks here enjoy a range
of cultural, recreational, and
employment opportunities.
Our robust diversified economy
features a steelmaker, a
manufacturer of automotive
parts, and plants making
roadside mowing equipment and
building materials. In 2009,
Seguin was proud to be selected
by Caterpillar as the site of a
major new engine manufacturing
facility.
Seguin Texas History
Seguin is one of the
oldest towns in Texas. In
1838, a group of frontier
Rangers laid out a
settlement among beautiful
live oaks beside Walnut
Springs on the Guadalupe
River. They soon named the
town for Col. Juan N.
Seguin, a Tejano who fought
beside the Anglo settlers
against the brutal Mexican
dictator Santa Anna. During
the remaining years of the
Republic of Texas, many
settlers arrived from the
South hoping to establish
cotton plantations. Some say
the Old South ended here
because few plantations, if
any, took root west of those
built here. An early census
showed that some 30 percent
of the county's population
were African-American
slaves. Meanwhile, the
frontier town was a center
for experimentation with
using concrete as a building
material. By the late 19th
century, about one out of 10
structures here was made of
the locally invented "limecrete."
As a result, this small town
had the greatest
concentration of concrete
buildings in the country! (A
big city back East may have
had a larger number in
total, but this possibility
cannot be proved or
disproved.) Only about 20 of
these rare concrete relics
survive today including
Sebastopol State Historic
Site.
Immigrants from Germany
began to pour into the area
during the 1840s. They came
in a steady stream
throughout the rest of the
19th century, briefly
interrupted by the Civil
War, from 1861-1865.
Beginning in 1848 until
after the railroad arrived
in 1876, stagecoaches made
an overnight stop at the
Magnolia Hotel, on the route
from Indianola and Port
Lavaca on Matagorda Bay to
San Antonio. For many
decades, King Cotton ruled
hereabouts, and the town's
prosperity largely depended
on the surrounding rich
farms and pasture lands.
Then in 1930, the discovery
of the Darst Creek Field set
off an oil boom here. Other
boom-towns sprang up like
gushers and as quickly fell
into decline. But because
Seguin was already an
established city, it
survived its oil boom and
accumulated a prize
collection of civic
buildings and park
facilities from the period.
New industries arrived after
World War II.
Today, plants making steel,
electronic products, mowing
equipment, construction
material, etc., provide a
solid industrial base. A
huge, highly efficient,
gas-powered
electric-generating plant
came on line recently. The
thriving service sector
includes a highly-rated and
fast-growing liberal arts
university anchoring the
western side of the city. A
modern, well-respected
hospital adjoins a sprawling
district for shopping,
eating, and lodging on the
eastern flank. The beautiful
Guadalupe River cuts through
the city's south side. A
fine public park was built
alongside it beginning
during the Depression years
when Seguin enjoyed
its oil boom. A scenic drive
lined with picnic tables
shadows the river for a mile
or so, bordered by an
18-hole golf course. Nearby
are the fairgrounds,
volleyball courts,
ballparks, and a country
club. Both Interstate 10 and
a main line of the Union
Pacific pass through the
town's north side, where
most manufacturing is
located. The heart of the
city is filled with fine old
homes in traditional
neighborhoods, and the city
is ringed by contemporary
residential developments as
well. In addition, just
outside the current city
limits, hundreds of handsome
riverfront homes sit along
the shores of Lake McQueeney,
Lake Placid, and Meadow Lake
on the beautiful Guadalupe
River.
Seguin Texas Newspaper - Seguin
Gazette
Derksen Portable Buildings
in Seguin, Texas constructs
quality storage buildings
including:
Barns, Lofted barns, Lofted Barn
Cabins, Cottage Sheds, Utility
Sheds, Garages, Cabins, and a
variety of custom combinations
of these basic designs. All
buildings may be purchased in
treated wood, painted treated
wood, or metal, exteriors.
Portable Buildings
Seguin,
Texas.
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