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Seguin, Texas: World's Oldest Largest Pecan

Nutty claim to fame made real by a statue on the courthouse lawn. It once was the world's largest.

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World's Largest Pecan

Seguin, TX has apparently reclaimed the title of having the World's Largest Pecan. 16x8 feet and 2,300 pounds. How will Brunswick, Missouri respond?

[Joe S., 04/01/2012]

It certainly looks like this is the new champ. Not sure if they will keep their old also-ran monument.

Seguin's Giant Pecan threatened by downtown blaze

A fire Tuesday gutted a hardware store and two other businesses directly across the street from the giant pecan statue in Seguin, Texas. The fire was stopped before leaping across the street, where it might have consumed the county courthouse AND the pecan.

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[07/22/2001] Complete News Story

World's Largest Pecan

We had the dubious honor of being stuck, uh, allowed to visit the town of Seguin, Texas for r.v. repairs in November, 1997. After searching in vain for our usual souvenir postcard without finding one anywhere in town, one of the locals finally fessed up that there was just nothing in town worthy of a postcard. Pretty hard to believe considering the crappy postcards one finds around these days. But as you begin to know Seguin, you begin to understand. This is pecan country and in a valiant effort to keep from going down in history with nothing to say for itself, the town has placed "the world's largest pecan" on the lawn in front of the courthouse. This is a metal sculpture about five feet long that looks like, well, like a pecan, (in the shell which is definitely the most boring part of the pecan).

[Roger A. Loo, 07/09/1998]

An okay stop east of San Antonio. Bested for the title by the big pecan in Brunswick, Missouri.

World's Oldest Largest Pecan

Address:
E. Court St., Seguin, TX
Directions:
East of San Antonio in downtown Seguin, near the intersection of Hwys. 123 and 90A, on the north lawn of the Guadalupe County Court House.
RA Rates:
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