Editing Seminole, Texas (section)

==History==
The land for Seminole was donated by nonresident landowners to become the county seat for Gaines County. In 1906, the first move to Seminole was made by W. B. Austin and his wife Emma, who moved their general store there, which was located in [[Caput, Texas]]. During this time, several post offices found a new home in Seminole. Seminole National Bank opened its doors in 1906, followed by First State Bank in 1907. In 1912, Seminole National Bank lost over $3,000 when it was robbed. In 1914, the two banks merged to form First State Bank. In 1950, Seminole's population surpassed [[Seagraves, Texas]], for the first time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.seminoletxchamber.org/?content_id=13|title = Seminole Texas Chamber of Commerce &#124;}}</ref>

[[Plautdietsch]]-speaking Mennonites became an [[ethnoreligious group]] in the [[Russian Empire]] and migrated from there to [[Canada]] and then to [[Mexico]]. In 1977, some 100 families from Mexico bought land southwest of Seminole to settle there, but faced difficulties with immigration. In 1980, President [[Jimmy Carter]] signed legislation allowing the original 100 families to gain full [[citizenship]]. In 2016, about 6,000 Plautdietsch speakers lived around Seminole.<ref>Roslyn Cherie Burns: ''New World Mennonite Low German. An Investigating of Changes in Progress.Berkeley, 2016, page 26.</ref>

On April 6, 2025, Secretary of Health and Human Services [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr]] flew to Seminole to investigate a measle epidemic and attended the funeral of Daisy Hildebrand, 8.<ref>https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/latest/robert-f-kennedy-jr-visits-texas-family-after-second-measles-child-death</ref>