Floresville's peanut nickname became an official Texas title in 2023

Peanuts arrived around Floresville in 1915 as farmers looked for a crop that fit the sandy soil. By the 1930s, Wilson County had more than 150 peanut growers. The crop had become large enough to give the county seat a nickname.

The Peanut Festival began in 1938. A festival court, parade, and public gathering turned a field crop into a shared town story. In its 2023 resolution, the Legislature said the event had grown to more than 10,000 visitors.

The official title came much later. In 2023, Texas named Floresville the Peanut Capital of Texas for a ten-year term. The state designation did not invent the identity; it put a formal label on nearly a century of local use.

That timeline is what makes the title feel earned: crop first, nickname next, festival after that, and the state seal decades later.