Sweet Home Vocational and Agricultural School

Sweet Home, Texas is located about eight miles southwest of Seguin in Guadalupe county. It was settled by former slaves in 1877. Due to a fund set up by Julius Rosenwald, the president of Sears and Roebuck at the turn of the century, the little community build a four room school house in 1924, and the school operated classes until 1962. 

William Stein, "The Giver" donated the land for the school in 1906.

Henry Singletary, the foreman and builder of the school building in 1924. 

 Reverend E. L. Roach is honored as "The Preserver" as he and several church members raised the funds to purchase the school in 1963. It is now used for community functions, including the church homecomings.

When you stand in the school yard, you can see the remains of a small candy store that sold sweets to the students.

Inside the building you can see a couple of the old advertisements for the sweets.

Sweet Home is still a small community in the corner of Guadalupe county. It's history has never been written down in any detail, so there are many stories waiting to be told, I am sure.