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Seguin is one of the oldest towns in Texas, founded on August 12, 1838, by Texas Rangers just sixteen months after Texas won its independence.

The town was first called Walnut Springs, but six months later its name was changed to honor Juan Nepomuceno Seguin, the Tejano hero of the Battle of San Jacinto and a senator of the Republic of Texas.

Thirty-three Rangers signed the town charter under an ancient live oak beside Walnut Springs on the Guadalupe River, and Seguin was incorporated in 1853.

Seguin is the county seat of Guadalupe County and sits on Interstate 10 about 35 miles east of San Antonio.

The 2020 census counted 29,433 people in Seguin, and the city has roughly 12,483 households, with Census estimates showing rapid growth since then.

Seguin was the home of Dr. John E. Park, whose experiments with locally made concrete produced nearly 100 structures, the largest concentration of early concrete buildings in the United States; about 20 survive, including the Sebastopol House Historic Site.

Texas Lutheran University, a private liberal arts university with about 1,400 students, relocated to Seguin in 1912 and has been part of the town for more than a century.

Seguin calls itself the Pecan Capital of Texas, and a five-foot, roughly 1,000-pound concrete pecan built in 1962 still sits on the Guadalupe County Courthouse lawn as the original World's Largest Pecan.

After a Missouri town claimed the pecan title in 1982, Seguin answered in 2011 with a 16-foot-long fiberglass pecan at the Texas Agricultural Education and Heritage Center.

Max Starcke Park spreads along the Guadalupe River with an 18-hole golf course, a wave pool, fishing, and walking trails under the pecan trees.