Seagoville, Texas

History

Seagoville was originally called Seago, and under this name was laid out in 1876 by T. K. Seago (1836–1904), and named after him. The United States Post Office changed the town's name to "Seagoville" in 1910 to prevent confusion with another city in Texas called Sego.

During World War II, the Federal Reformatory for Women in Seagoville was the site of an Immigration and Naturalization Service detention camp for Japanese, German, and Italian Americans classified as "enemy aliens" and women of Japanese and German ancestry deported from Latin America. Internees at Seagoville published a German-language newsletter called the Sägedorfer Fliegende Blätter.{{Cite web | access-date = 2014-02-06 | access-date = 2014-02-06 | chapter-url = https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/quwby

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 49.2 sqkm, of which 48.4 sqkm are land and 0.8 sqkm, or 1.58%, is covered by water.

Demographics

At the 2020 United States census, 18,446 people, 4,283 households, and 3,445 families resided in the city.

Government and infrastructure

Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville is located in Seagoville.

The United States Postal Service operates the Seagoville Post Office on Seagoville Road in Kleberg, Dallas. It was previously located at 314 Glendale Avenue, in a rented facility in Seagoville. Since around 1882 a post office had been located in the Seagoville city limits. In 2011, the USPS announced that it was closing the existing Seagoville post office and consolidating it into the Kleberg Post Office, a USPS-owned facility since renamed to the Seagoville Post Office, citing cost-cutting reasons in response to a budget shortfall. Though individuals had offered to pay for the rental costs at Seagoville, the USPS insisted on closing the city post office. As of 2011, the Seagoville city post office was busier than the Kleberg one.

Education

Primary and secondary schools

Public schools

Portions of Seagoville are within three separate independent school districts.

Dallas Independent School District

Almost all of the Dallas County portion of Seagoville is served by the Dallas Independent School District. The area is within the Board of Trustees District 4. Portions of Seagoville are zoned to Central Elementary School, Seagoville North Elementary School, and Seagoville Elementary School. All of the city is zoned to Seagoville Middle School (grades 6–8), and Seagoville High School (grades 9–12).

Seagoville North Elementary School was scheduled to open in 2012. Prior to 2012, the students in the Dallas County portion were zoned to Seagoville Elementary School (at the time, prekindergarten–grade 2) and Central Elementary School (at the time, grades 3–5).

Seagoville Elementary, Seagoville North, and Central Elementary are within the Seagoville city limits, while Seagoville Middle and Seagoville High are in Dallas, near the city of Seagoville. Seagoville Alternative Center, an alternative school, is within the city limits.

DISD maintains the Seagoville Stadium.

Seagoville Independent School District was previously the town's school district. In 1965, the district was absorbed into the DISD.

Crandall Independent School District

The minuscule Kaufman County portion is served by Crandall Independent School District. The students in the Crandall portion are zoned to Wilson Elementary School, Crandall Middle School, and Crandall High School. Wilson Elementary and Crandall Middle are within the city of Crandall. Crandall High is partially in Crandall and partially in unincorporated Kaufman County.

Mesquite Independent School District

A very small portion of northeast Seagoville is within the boundaries of Mesquite Independent School District. That portion is served by Achziger Elementary School, Terry Middle School, and John Horn High School (all three schools are in Mesquite). The area was formerly zoned to Thompson Elementary School.

History of schools

The first school established in Seagoville was the Brinegar School. The one-room log schoolhouse, which featured split-log seating, was constructed around 1867 in the area of the modern-day Heard Park. Professor J.T. Doss built a new school building in 1880; it was called Woodside. Another school opened in a four-frame building. A cyclone destroyed one of its rooms in 1903, and in 1909, that school was destroyed in a fire. In 1910, a new brick high-school building opened on the site of what is now Seagoville Elementary School.

Seagoville High School first opened in 1928 on land purchased in 1927. This building later burned down, and Central Elementary School opened on the former high-school site. The current high-school facility and Seagoville Middle School opened on a 22 acre plot of land donated by M.D. Reeves in 1952: one building opened in 1955 and the other opened in September 1958. Seagoville was in the Seagoville Independent School District until August 1964, when it merged into DISD. The DISD operates the Seagoville Stadium in Seagoville.

Public libraries

Seagoville has its own public library, the Seagoville Public Library, at 702 North U.S. Highway 175.

Community colleges

The Texas Legislature defines all of Dallas County (including the vast majority of Seagoville) as being in the Dallas College (formerly Dallas County Community College or DCCCD) district. The portion in Kaufman County is within the Trinity Valley Community College district.

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Notable people

• LaMarcus Aldridge - NBA player, attended Seagoville High School
• Chill Wills - actor, born and raised in Seagoville
• Antonio Wilson - NFL player, born in Seagoville

References

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