The best burgers in Texas - seriously

If you want a good burger, you can't do better than Kirby's Korner! AND you are bound to see at least one person you know for everyone frequents Kirby's. Good food and excellent service. Kirby's also gives back to the community in a great many ways.

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Seguin Welcomes Caterpillar

It's a Big Deal!

It is indeed a Big Deal for Seguin and the surrounding area. Yesterday the groundbreaking for the Caterpillar engine plant that will be in Seguin was held at the Events Center. There was a huge crowd in attendance to hear Mayor Betty Ann Matthis and guest speakers, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, our own Representant Edmund Kuempel and others.

This is especially good news for Seguin during the financial downturn in the nation. Not only will there be about 1400 jobs available with the presence of Caterpillar, there is optimism about other businesses (existing and new) and opportunities for everyone. It is a big deal!

"I stand here humbled . . ."

In 2005, Congress appointed a task force to research the stories of slaves building the White House and/or the Capitol. The task force acknowledged it was not able to tell the full story. "No one will ever know how many slaves helped to build the United States Capitol Building — or the White House," says the 2005 task force report, entitled History of Slave Laborers in the Construction of the United States Capitol.

But the task force did find plenty of evidence of slave involvement in the capitol's construction. Perhaps the most compelling evidence were records of payments from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia — the three men appointed by George Washington to oversee the construction of the capitol and the rest of the city of Washington — to slave owners for the rental of slaves to work on the capitol. The records reflect 385 payments between 1795 and 1801 for "Negro hire," a euphemism for the yearly rental of slaves.

"A new era of responsibility..."

"For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies..." ~ Barack Obama, January 20, 2009

Baxter-Fennell-Tips House

The Baxter-Fennell-Tips house, 202 East Walnut, was built about 1851 and is a simple, graceful frame two-story house. The smaller 'apartments' on the lot were rented by migratory or short-term (or maybe even long term) workers who would come to Seguin.

Architect David Acherberg has done extensive work on this house and it is one of Seguin's historical home treasurers.

William Chester Maxwell built the home on Walnut Street (probably about 1851) and sold it to James Watkins Fennell in 1860.

James Watkins Fennell was born April 21, 1832 in Huntsville, Alabama. He came to Texas in 1855 "and located at Seguin, where he has since resided. Once tried California. but liked Texas better, and made it his home permanently." [Types of Successful Men of Texas by Lewis E. Daniel, published by the author in Austin, Texas Eugene Von Boeckmann, Printer and Bookkeeper, 1890.]

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