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by ELB
Mon Aug 12, 2019 1:53 pm
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Topic: This Day In Texas History - August 12
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Re: This Day In Texas History - August 12

joe817 wrote: Mon Aug 12, 2019 9:56 am 1838 - On August 12, 1838, thirty-three of the Gonzales Rangers, a volunteer group, joined Joseph S. Martin in laying out a townsite near Walnut Branch; they named the site Walnut Springs. The name was changed in February 1839 to Seguin for Juan N. Seguín.
[ https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/HES03 ]
Hey! I’ve heard of that place!

It’s over 100 degrees here today. Those fellars must have wanted a town awfully bad to have been laying it out in August.

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