Editing Seagoville, Texas (section)

==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 Postal Service|United States Post Office]] changed the town's name to "Seagoville" in 1910 to prevent confusion with another city in Texas called Sego.<ref name="Handbook"/>

During [[World War II]], the [[Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville|Federal Reformatory for Women]] in Seagoville was the site of an [[United States Immigration and Naturalization Service|Immigration and Naturalization Service]]  [[Japanese American internment#Justice Department detention camps|detention camp]] for [[Japanese American internment|Japanese]], [[German American internment|German]], and [[Italian American internment|Italian]] Americans classified as "enemy aliens" and women of Japanese and German ancestry [[Internment of Japanese Americans#Japanese Latin Americans|deported from Latin America]].<ref name="Handbook"/><ref name=Mak>Mak, Stephen. [http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Seagoville%20%28detention%20facility%29/ "Seogoville (detention facility)"] ''Densho Encyclopedia'' (accessed 17 Jun 2014).</ref> Internees at Seagoville published a German language newsletter called the ''Sägedorfer Fliegende Blätter''.<ref>{{Cite web
| title = Seagoville Internee Newspaper: ''Sägedorfer Fliegende Blätter''
| work = The Freedom of Information Times
| access-date = 2014-02-06
| language = de
| url = http://www.foitimes.com/Seagoville.pdf
}}</ref> The camp housed up to 647 people, and was closed in June 1945, after the internees were either "repatriated" to Japan or Germany, or transferred to [[Crystal City Internment Camp|Crystal City]], Texas.<ref name=Mak/><ref>{{Cite book
| last = Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)
| title = The Handbook of Texas Online
| chapter = World War II Internment Camps
| access-date = 2014-02-06
| chapter-url = https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/quwby
}}</ref>