Juan Seguin

Born in San Antonio in 1806, the elder son of Erasmo Seguín, he had little formal schooling, but his father encouraged him to read and write, and he seems to have taken an interest in music. He helped his mother run his father's post office while Erasmo sat in the Mexican congress in 1823-24. He was elected alderman in December 1828 and alcalde in December 1833, and for most of 1834 he acted as political chief of the Department of Bexar. In the spring of 1835 he led a militia company to Monclova for the Federalist governor.

What the plaque says

Juan Seguin In 1974, the citizens of Seguin brought the remains of Juan Seguin to this city. On July 4, 1976, the Bicentennial Committee and the City of Seguin reinterred the remains of Juan Seguin in a hillside plot overlooking the Guadalupe River Valley. The site (about one mile southwest of here) is above the old road and ford to the south and was well known to Juan Seguin. His grave is covered with a marble slab and the site is a part of the city park system. (1978)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sophienburg Museum and Archives — 13 mi
  The hilltop where Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels raised the Adelsverein's headquarters in 1845, now the museum and archive of the German colony that became New Braunfels.
• Gruene Historic District — 14 mi
  A cotton town on the Guadalupe that the boll weevil emptied, rescued in the 1970s by a kayaking architecture student, with a dance hall that says it has never closed.
• Spring Lake and the Meadows Center — 22 mi
  The headsprings of the San Marcos River, among the longest-inhabited places in North America, once an amusement park with a swimming pig and now seen from glass-bottom boats.
• Natural Bridge Caverns — 24 mi
  The largest known cavern in Texas, found in 1960 by four college cavers under a ranch family's land, entered beneath a 60-foot limestone bridge and still growing.

More markers nearby

• Juan Nepomuceno Seguin — steps away
• Guadalupe County, C.S.A. — steps away
• Colonel John Ireland — steps away
• Black Education in Seguin — 0.4 mi