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8 unusual facts about Seguin


Farm to Market Road 466

The road begins at an intersection with US 90 on the east side of Seguin, crosses US 90 Alt.

Freddie Patek

Patek was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 22nd round of the 1965 Major League Baseball Draft out of Seguin High School in Seguin, Texas.

Grace Fernald

Tracing tactile learning tendencies back to Quintilian, Seguin, and Montessori, Fernald’s kinesthetic spelling and reading method prompted struggling students to trace words.

James Riely Gordon

In Seguin, Texas, near San Antonio, the Nolte family hired Gordon to build the E. Nolte & Sons Bank (now a Wells Fargo branch) facing the town square (designed 1890, finished 1896).

La Forêt des Mal-Aimés

A live version was recorded in 2007 by the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and released by Radio Canada.

Los Nogales

Senator Juan Seguin helped establish a mail route to Seguin and Los Nogales has previously been referred to as the "Juan Seguin Post Office".

Robert H.H. Hugman

When private architectural commissions disappeared with the Great Depression, Hugman worked as a planner for public works projects, redesigning Woodlawn Lake, Elmendorf Lake, Concepcion Park, and others, including two new parks in Seguin.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Nézet-Séguin studied successively at St-Isaac-Jogues Primary School, at Mont-St-Louis Secondary School and at Bois-de-Boulogne College.


Armando Hinojosa

Other HInojosa sculptures are the Juan Seguin monument at Seguin Central Park in Seguin, Texas, the Knute Rockne and Ara Parseghian statues at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana, and the life-size "Among Friends There Are No Borders" statue at Laredo International Airport, which depicts a South Texas vaquero and a Mexican charro sharing a campfire.

Battle of the San Gabriels

A company of Texas Rangers under Lt. James O. Rice had pursued the Mexican agent Manuel Flores and his party of Mexicans and Indians, following their murder of four surveyors working between Seguin and San Antonio, Texas.

CBC Summer Symphonies

Artists featured included the Canadian Brass, Colette Boky (vocalist), Philippe Djokic (violin), Monica Gaylord (piano), Jon Peterson (oboe), Marie-Claire Seguin (vocalist) and Richard Turner (harp).

Denise Djokic

She has collaborated with conductors Andrew Litton, Geoffrey Moull, Grant Llewellyn, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Bernhard Gueller, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Avi Ostrovsky, and Kenneth Schermerhorn, among others.

Fiscal imbalance in Canada

The theory was further developed in the "Seguin Report", commissioned by former Parti Québécois (PQ) Premier of Quebec Bernard Landry, and completed under former Liberal Quebec Minister of Finance Yves Séguin.

Galerie Patrick Seguin

Jean Prouvé Demountable House 6x6 (éditions Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris 2013)

Jean Prouvé (éditions Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris - Sonnabend Gallery, New York 2007)

Jean Prouvé Demountable House 8x8 (éditions Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris 2013)

Gitxsan language

Halpin, Marjorie, and Margaret Seguin (1990) "Tsimshian Peoples: Southern Tsimshian, Coast Tsimshian, Nishga, and Gitksan." In Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 7: Northwest Coast, ed.

Huon of Bordeaux

The godfather of Huon may safely be identified with Seguin, who was count of Bordeaux under Louis the Pious in 839, and died fighting against the Normans six years later.

Raoul de Warren

His mother, Marie Seguin, was the granddaughter of Marc Seguin, a member of the Institut de France, builder of the first steamship in France, inventor of boilers, railroads and suspension bridges.

Richard Séguin

In his recent work, Seguin has been largely borrowing and incorporating fragments of poems by Gaston Miron.

Seguin Falls

The OA&PS Railway through Seguin Falls, locally known as the Grand Trunk was taken over by the Grand Trunk Railway in 1904, which was subsequently absorbed by Canadian National Railways in 1923.

Seguin High School

Seguin High School may refer to a high school in Texas, named after Juan Seguín.

The Night Shift

Other artists to have appeared at The Night Shift include Robin Ticciati, Marin Alsop, Rachel Podger, Edward Gardner, Christian Tetzlaff, Eduardo Portal, Stephen Hough and Yannick Nezet-Seguin.


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