From the Texas State Historical Association 

February 7, 1853

Seguin incorporates
On this day in 1853, the town of Seguin was officially incorporated.
This South Texas seat of Guadalupe County saw settlement as early
as the 1830s, and founders originally called the site Walnut Springs
before changing the name to Seguin in honor of Tejano revolutionary
and Texas Republic senator Juan Nepomuceno Seguín in 1839. The
town enjoyed a rich agricultural landscape and ample water resources
thanks to the nearby Guadalupe and San Marcos rivers and Cibolo and
Geronimo creeks. Its original schoolhouse, built in 1850, was still
used for educational purposes well over 100 years later, when the
state recognized the structure as the oldest continuously used school
building in Texas. Texas Lutheran College relocated to Seguin in 1912,
and the town’s economy experienced a major upswing with the
discovery of oil in the nearby Darst Creek fields in the late 1920s.
Throughout the twentieth century the community supported agricultural,
oil-based, and manufacturing interests. In 2000 Seguin had a population
of 22,011.



Links to related Handbook of Texas Online articles
SEGUIN, TX
GUADALUPE COUNTY
SEGUIN, JUAN NEPOMUCENO
TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY
DARST CREEK OILFIELD