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Seguin ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Guadalupe County, Texas, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The estimated municipal population in 2012 was 26,272.〔http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=bkmk〕 Seguin is one of the oldest towns in Texas, founded just sixteen months after the Texas Revolution. The frontier settlement was a cradle of the Texas Rangers and home to the celebrated Captain Jack Hays, perhaps the most famous Ranger of all. Seguin was the home of Dr. John E. Park, who experimented in construction using concrete made from local materials. The nearly 100 structures—the courthouse, schools, churches, homes, cisterns, walls, etc.—made up the largest concentration of early 19th-Century concrete buildings in the U.S. About 20 of them remain standing. The use of concrete largely ended when the railroad arrived in 1876, bringing cheap lumber and the equipment needed for brick-making. The town had five brickworks, and the wooden buildings of downtown were completely replaced with brick by the beginning of World War I. For almost 100 years, the town was dependent on the rich surrounding farmland and ranches. Then an oil boom came just as the Great Depression was taking down other towns and cities. Seguin could raise enough tax money to match the federal grants for 'make-work' projects. The New Deal transformed the city's public 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 commemorated 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 district was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Fine homes by leading architects J. Reily Gordon, Solon McAdoo, Leo M.J. Dielman, Atlee B. Ayers, and Marvin Eickenroht dating from the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century can be found on many streets. However the city does not have any officially designated historic residential districts. The post-war era also saw industrial development, with an electric furnace mini-mill turning scrap metal into construction products, a plant making electronic components for automobiles which was established on 1972 by Motorola but bought by Continental AG on 2006,〔(Patrick Danner:Auto supplier to create 300 jobs in Seguin )〕 and most recently a Caterpillar plant assembling diesel engines. ==Weather and climate== On the northern edge of the South Texas Plains, Seguin enjoys a mild winter. The sunny days of spring bring on spectacular shows of wildflowers March into June. Most of Texas suffers hot, dry summers June into September. Then cold fronts pushing down usually trigger precipitation and make October a rainy month, bringing 'a second spring' of wildflowers. At their worst, fall and winter have 'northers', fast-moving cold fronts with wind, often rain, and rapid drops of temperature, frequently falling 30 degrees or more during one day. Northers give way to warm spells, right through the winter. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seguin, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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