{{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Hardscramble | nrhp_type = | image = | caption = | location = 1806 Tschoepe Rd.,<br />Seguin, Texas | coordinates = {{coord|29|38|4|N|97|52|52|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Texas#USA | map_label = Hardscramble | locmap_relief = yes | area = | built = {{Start date|1841}} | builder = Ben McCulloch, State of Texas | added = July 6, 2011 | refnum = 11000424<ref name=NRHPweekly>{{Cite web|title=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 7/05/11 through 7/08/11|url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/weekly-list-2011-national-register-of-historic-places.pdf|date=July 15, 2011|author=Staff|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=February 3, 2018}}</ref> }} thumb|Texas centennial marker thumb|Hardscramble cabin
'''Hardscramble''' is the name given to an early 1800s stone structure located near Seguin, Texas, that was used as a home station by some of the earliest and most famous of Texas Rangers.
==History== According to research for a Texas historical marker, Hardscramble located on 1806 Tschoepe Rd., Seguin, Texas was the home station of early Texas Rangers, Henry McCulloch<ref>Harold J. Weiss, Jr., "MCCULLOCH, HENRY EUSTACE," Handbook of Texas Online [https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fmc35], accessed July 03, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.</ref> and Benjamin McCulloch<ref>Thomas W. Cutrer, "MCCULLOCH, BENJAMIN," Handbook of Texas Online [https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fmc34], accessed July 03, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.</ref> from 1841 until 1853.
Nathaniel Benton<ref>Stephanie P. Niemeyer, "BENTON, NATHANIEL," Handbook of Texas Online [https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbebu], accessed July 03, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.</ref> occupied the building in 1858 and later in 1871, it was home to Elijah Dale.
A Texas Centennial marker was placed to honor the location and its history in 1936.<ref>[http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5187002374 9key, Hardscramble marker]</ref> The old ranger station and marker still stand at the location and occasional tours can be arranged locally.<ref>[http://seguingazette.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/article_0376ffca-777b-11e0-84e1-001cc4c002e0.html Seguin Gazette article]</ref>
A second and older adobe Walnut Branch Ranger Station and hospital once stood at the corner of Court and Guadalupe Streets. It was used by the Caldwell, Callahan and Hays Rangers. No longer standing, it was unexpectedly razed around 2000. A city historical marker has been placed to honor and identify the location.<ref>Texas Almanac, 1964-1965, Book, 1963; digital images, [http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth113807/m1/76/?q=hardscramble : accessed July 04, 2012], University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association, Denton, Texas.</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|National Register of Historic Places|Texas}} National Register of Historic Places listings in Guadalupe County, Texas
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/weekly-list-2011-national-register-of-historic-places.pdf National Register of Historic Places Listings, 2011]
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Category:Buildings and structures in Guadalupe County, Texas Category:Tourist attractions in Seguin, Texas Category:Texas State Historic Sites