Featured Article: The First Christmas
The First Christmas
#HistoryTuesday - Tuesday December 23RD 2025
How It Started: In 1911 Mr. George E. Sebring arrived here during a fishing expedition, and he fell in love with the big lakes and rolling hills of this area. He purchased about 9,000 acres (14 square miles) of land adjacent to what is now known as Lake Jackson, and he formally founded the town that he would soon name after himself. He designed our Circle, and his surveyor friend Mr. J.W. Turner platted and finalized it for him.
Sebring's First Christmas: About 36 residents representing 9 families lived in the new community during the Christmas of 1911. It was a struggle living here back then with nonstop work from morning to night, and cooking, cleaning, and bathing with limited access to clean drinking water. Pictured below is a Christmas dinner gathering of 12 of our earliest residents on the south shore of Lake Jackson where the main course consisted of razorback, bear, and deer. After all of that food nothing was better than a refreshing swim in the lake.
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