Business View Civil and Municipal | January 2021

67 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL JANUARY 2021 SEAGOV I LLE , TEXAS The Town of Seago was founded by T.K. Seago in 1876. He cleared his land of the dense timber and built the first general store in the area – having $200 worth of stock in dry goods and groceries when he opened. In 1881 he was also the postmaster of Seago. T.K. stayed in the area until at least 1883 before moving to Comanche County, Texas to represent that county in the Texas Legislature. A growing agriculture industry kept enough people coming to Seago to build a one-room log school house in 1867. The first true brick and mortar elementary school was built in 1910 after fire destroyed the original frame building on the site of the present day Seagoville Elementary School. The T & NO Railroad came through Seago in 1880 bringing even more people and vendors. The area become a busy rail center; citizens no longer had to go to Lawson for their mail and farmers could market their cotton and other crops by shipping them to Dallas on the railroad instead of on wagons. The U.S. Post Office gave the city its current name