Citizens of Wilson County - Floresville, TX USA - Citizen Memorials on Waymarking.com

In the early 1900s, a local farmer named Joe T. Sheehy began experimenting with growing peanuts on his farm. By 1916, he had developed successful crops of Spanish peanuts and other farmers began to plant peanuts too. The peanut crops were profitable enough that in 1938, Wilson County began holding annual Peanut Festivals to advertise and celebrate the peanut that had been instrumental in growing the prosperity of the county in general. Each year since 1938, the Peanut Festival chooses one young man and one young woman to be the King and Queen of that year's festival.

Floresville, TX is about 30 miles south of San Antonio, TX. Floresville is the county seat of Wilson County and on the Wilson County Courthouse lawn is a large replica of a peanut that symbolizes the crop that has given Wilson County generations of food and growth. Their annual Peanut Festival held at the end of the peanut harvest has been a big civic event. The fact this model of a peanut is on the courthouse lawn shows it place of important to the economy of Wilson County.

On the concrete base upon which the peanut is mounted, there is a metal plaque at the base of the peanut that dedicates this replica of a peanut to the citizen of Wilson County. The wording on the plaque reads as follows:

"Dedicated to the
Citizens of Wilson County
by the
Floresville
Jacees & Jacee-ettes
October 10. 1970"

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Website with more information on either the memorial or the person(s) it is dedicated to: [Web Link] Location: 1420 3rd Street, Floresville, TX 78114

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