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24126 Aldredge Cemetery marker pending marker pending 24183 Aldredge Cemetery marker pending marker pending 12377 Angelina & Neches River Railroad 2225 Spence St. Chartered in August 1900 and headquartered in the sawmill town of Keltys, the Angelina and Neches River (A&NR) Railroad began as a small short line ... 6981 Angelina County Louis Bronaugh Park, near Lufkin City Hall Created and organized in 1846. Originally a part of Nacogdoches County. Bears the name of the river traversing the region. The following towns have ... 6982 Angelina County Lumber Company Mill Street, Lufkin One of the first individuals to recognize the economic potential of the east Texas forests was German native Joseph H. Kurth, who came to Angelina ...

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14367 Berry Cemetery Moffett community, FM 842, N side W of Lightfoot Rd, N of Mt. Zion Baptist Church In 1850, Samuel and Elizabeth Berry brought their family and slaves here from Limestone Co., Alabama. Samuel's plantation covered hundreds of acres ... 11653 Beulah Congregational Methodist Church 12 miles southeast of Lufkin on FM 58 Allen Squyres, son of Beaulah pioneers, joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1845. He was licensed to preach in 1868 after his return from the ... 11654 Beulah School 12 miles southeast of Lufkin on FM 58 Beulah School began operations in 1903. Buildings erected and furnished by local residents were used as both school and church. State funds made ... 8722 Birthplace of Allan Shivers Ellis and Kelley St., Lufkin Born here, in now-razed house, Oct. 5, 1907, to Robert A. and Easter C. Shivers, pioneer East Texas family. As youth, worked at odd jobs to earn ... 17886 Brown Cemetery 8 miles from Huntington on FM 2109. Turn right on Eugene Walker Rd. Cemetery is 1/4 mile down on right hand side. Established Circa 1879 Historic Texas Cemetery – 2012 6983 Burke Methodist Church Burke Community Church, NW corner Blue Jay St. (CR 59D) and US 59 Founded in 1889 by a small group of Methodists, this church has played an integral role in the history of the community. H. and Nannie Belote donated ... 11655 Burke School Burke Community Center & City Hall, S side Tidwell Rd. (CR 62) S of McCarty Dr. The community of Burke was established along the Houston, East and West Texas Railroad in 1882. S. J. and Nancy Arrington conveyed one acre of land ...

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6984 Calder (Cotton) Square Cotton Square at Lufkin Avenue City's hub, 1882- early 1900s, teeming with cotton buying, horse trades, band concerts, political rallies, switching railroad trains. Site of fire ... 16536 Camp Nancy Northwest corner Massey Road and Hwy 69. Camp was located just west of this location along Massey Road. Massey Road (Co Rd 374) is approximately 3.7 miles south of Zavalla intersection of Hwy 69 and Hwy 63. Marker will be located at the approximate site of the Post Office, where mail was dropped off from the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Camp Nancy Camp Nancy began as one of many logging camps established in the Piney Woods of east Texas during the early 20th century. The camp was ... 12780 Central Consolidated School 7622 US 69N (3.8 mi. SW of Pollok on US 69 ) Central Consolidated School This school traces its origin to five small schools in the Pollok-Central area: Union, Durant, Pollok, Clawson and Allentown. ... 6985 Cheeseland 9.2 mi. N of Lufkin on US 69, then W 2.3 mi. on SH 7, then N 3.5 mi. on Old Homer-Alto Road In 1844 Jacob Ferguson Humphrey (d. 1882), a native of Wales, built a log cabin and stockade in this area. The community that grew up near his homesite ... 8709 City of Lufkin Kiwanis Park - US Business 59S at Tulane St. Founded 1882. Soon became a thriving sawmill community. Named for E. P. Lufkin, chief of crew that surveyed railroad through town. Has been county ... 14638 Civilian Conservation Corps and Forestry in Texas 2221 N. Raguet St. Continuing efforts started in the 1920s by the Texas Forest Service (TFS), the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), established through the Emergency ... 6986 Clark's Ferry and Clark's Ferry Cemetery, Site of US 59 at Clark's Ferry Rd., 3 mi. south of Diboll. Marker reported missing Jan. 2015. Established by I. D. Clark in 1856, this ferry provided an important crossing on the Neches River between Angelina and Polk counties. When Clark ... 6987 Collins-Shotwell House 503 N. Raguet St. Attorney Chester B. Collins (1888-1960) built this house in the early 1920s with lumber provided by Lillian Knox whom he had successfully defended ...

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24251 Denman Springs Community marker pending marker pending 6988 Depot Explosion and Mystery Calder Square - Ellis, Cotton and Angelina streets, Lufkin On the evening of March 2, 1913, an explosion destroyed the Houston, East & West Texas Railroad depot at this site, disrupting the town's vital source ... 6989 Diboll US 59 (Temple St.) at Kenley St. in front of City Hall, Diboll A sawmill established here in 1894 by T. L. L. Temple gave rise to a town that by 1900 contained a commissary, post office, churches, homes, and ... 6990 Don Joaquin Crossing on Bedias Trail at Angelina River Bridge, 9 mi. N of Lufkin on US 59 (marker broken and removed) Used by Indians, explorers, traders and missionaries, this trail ran from Bedias Indian camps on the lower Trinity River to Spanish missions near ... 24213 Dunbar Schools of Lufkin marker pending marker pending

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6993 Emporia NE corner of Booker and Maynard St., Diboll Emporia Lumber Company co-owners S. F. Carter and M. T. Jones purchased over 5,000 acres of land in south Angelina County and established a company ... 13937 Emporia Cemetery Parker St off US 59 S This pioneer burial ground predates later timber towns of the area. The land was originally set aside as a family cemetery, with the first burial ... 6991 Equipment Typical of Early Texas Logging Texas Forestry Museum One of last ox-drawn or mule-drawn carts skidding logs to railroad from the forests. Built 1950 for W. T. Carter & Brother, a lumber firm, and replaced ... 6994 Ewing 17 mi. east of Lufkin on SH 103 The boom town of Ewing stood for two decades on the west bank of the Angelina River. Named for plantation owner James A. Ewing, the town was located ...

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6995 Fairview School FM 2108, 3 mi. east of Burke The Angelina County School Board created Fairview Common School District Number 69 in the late 1800s. A one-room schoolhouse was built that served ... 17653 First Baptist Church Diboll 208 Devereaux Street In 1897, the Southern Pine Lumber Company built a Union Church shared by Baptists and Methodists of Diboll. The Baptists acquired land from Copes ... 6996 First Baptist Church of Lufkin 312 N. First St. Chartered with nine members, the Lufkin Baptist Church began conducting worship services soon after rail lines reached the townsite in the early ... 6997 First Christian Church of Lufkin 1300 S. First St. A Christian church was organized in Angelina County about 1884 in Homer, the county seat. When the railroad line from Houston to Shreveport was built ... 6998 First Methodist Church of Diboll Hines St. at Church St. This congregation was founded about 1897, soon after Diboll was established as a sawmill town. Early worship services were held in a local schoolhouse ... 11656 First United Methodist Church of Lufkin 805 E. Denman Ave. Margaret (Fullerton) Abney, born in Alabama in 1829, joined the Methodist Church with her family at a camp meeting held at nearby McKendree Campground ...

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14796 Gann Memorial Cemetery Pollok This burial ground, which contains over 3,000 graves, has served area residents since the mid-1800s. In 1860, Nathan W. Gann, who came to Texas with ... 13709 German POWs in the East Texas Timber Industry 2221 N. Raguet St/Hwy 69 The U.S. Army began building POW camps in the United States in early 1942 for captured Axis prisoners. During World War II, the Army shipped almost ... 7001 Gibbs House 10 miles south of Huntington on FM 844 W. M. Gibbs came to the town of Manning in 1904 as a sawmill manager for the Carter-Kelly Lumber Company. Gibbs (1876 - 1938) and his wife, Leannah, ...

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7006 Homer Cemetery 4 mi. southeast of Lufkin on SH 69, .7 mi. south on FM 326 to Homer Cemetery Rd., .25 mi. north to cemetery and marker In 1854 W. W. Manning established a drugstore and sawmill in this area, and named the community after his former home in Homer, Louisiana. In 1856 ... 7007 Hoshall 2.75 mi. south of Lufkin on FM 324 The Houston East and West Texas (HE&WT) Railroad came through Angelina County in 1882 and a community named Bitterweed Flat developed here. In 1913 ... 11713 Huntington FM 1669 (Main St.) at the South Pacific Railroad, Huntington Settlers attempted to form a townsite in this area in the 1880s, but it was not until the arrival of the railroad lines that it attracted a thriving ...

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14777 Ivy Cemetery 1874 Palmer Ivy Rd. This burial ground dates to 1873, when Cyrus Ivy buried a grandson on the family farm and set aside land for a cemetery. Born in Georgia, Ivy moved ...

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7003 Joseph Herrington Herrington Cemetery, FM 2109, 10 mi. SE of Huntington When Angelina County was organized in 1846, Alabama native Joseph Herrington (1823 - 89) was one of six men appointed by the legislature who set ...

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22722 Keltys United Methodist Church marker pending marker pending 7009 Kerr's Inc. 1114 N. Raguet St. Regarded as the oldest Angelina County business in continuous operation, Kerr's began in 1870 as a general store in the early county seat of Homer ... 16011 KRBA-AM Radio Station 121 S. Cotton Square By the 1930s, radio had become an established medium for commercial advertising. In 1938, commercial radio came to Angelina County when Redland Broadcasting ... 8707 Kurth Home Old Mill Rd. (Loop 36), E side 220 feet SE of McMullen St. on private property. RTHL medallion only

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22857 Lang Cemetery Redland community, SE corner CR 107 (Old Hwy 59) and FM 2021. Map dot approximate. Established 1867. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2020 8708 Lindsey Springs Logging Camp 6 mi. south of Lufkin or 2.3 mi. south of the intersection of FM 2108 and FM 58 on FM 58 The naturally occurring Lindsey Springs, located approximately 3/4 of a mile northeast of this location, became the site in 1899 of the Southern ... 8710 Lufkin CCC Camp intersection of Frank (SH 94) and Ellis St., Lufkin Created by President Franklin Roosevelt and approved by an Act of Congress in 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) provided youth employment ... 16957 Lufkin Daily News 300 Ellis St., Lufkin THE FIRST NOTICE FOUND OF THE DAILY NEWSPAPER IN LUFKIN IS IN THE FEB. 14, 1907 NACOGDOCHES SENTINEL: “LUFKIN HAS AN AFTERNOON DAILY PAPER, THE NEWS. ... 8711 Lufkin Foundry and Machine Company 610 S. Raguet Chartered in 1902 as a repair shop and parts supply house for local sawmills, Lufkin Foundry & Machine Company was begun by J. H. Kurth, Frank Kavanaugh, ... 11657 Lufkin Telephone Exchange corner of First and Frank streets, Lufkin Telephone service in Lufkin began in 1898 when Dr. Alexander Madison Denman and his friend Judge Edwin James Mantooth strung telephone wires between ...

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6992 Machinery from Early East Texas Logging Railroads Texas Forestry Museum Steam locomotive and tender No. 3 were bought 1908 by Carter-Kelley Lumber Co., for use in building a sawmill at Manning (about 18 mi. south); then ... 7000 Manning FM 844, 10 mi. south of Huntington The community of Manning grew up around the operations of the Carter-Kelley Lumber Company, established here about 1906. The town was named for D. ... 16955 Mantooth Farm 309 Laurel Members of the Mantooth family came to Angelina County in 1858. Albert Edwin (Eddie) Mantooth (1874-1969) was born in Homer, Angelina County, to ... 18004 Masonic Hall of Lufkin 228 Leach Street The Masonic Hall of North Lufkin was completed in 1900 by the African American Community’s architect, Will Engram. Engram moved to Lufkin in 1896 ... 17428 McCarty Cemetery from Hudson go west 0.9 mile to Farm Road 2497; go 2.1 miles on FM 2497 East, turn right and go 0.3 mil on Kurth Loop, turn left, enter locked gate, proceed 2.5 miles to end of dirt road In 1860, Orange McCarty, Sr. (1813-1897) and his wife, Mary Arrington (1820-1881), purchased 2200 acres in the Antonio Solis survey that included ... 8714 Mount Calvary Baptist Church 208 Calvary St. Mount Calvary Baptist Church was founded in 1892 when Ellen Grimes asked her employer for the use of a house as a church for African Americans in ...

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8715 Old Diboll Library 116 N. First St., at railroad tracks Built about 1908 by T. L. L. Temple for his Southern Pine Lumber Company employees, this building served for many years as a community library and ... 8721 Original Site of St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church Second and Paul Streets The first Episcopal service in Lufkin was held in 1893 by the Rev. George L. Crocket for the W. G. Garron and R. B. Shearer families. St. Mary's ...

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18160 Page Cemetery From Huntington intersection of Highway 69 and FM1669, go south for 2.9 miles. Turn right onto Fm Rd. 844 (Shawnee Prairie) for 9.l miles. Turn right onto Lambert Chapel Rd. Go 1.3 miles and turn right onto Southwell Rd. Go 1.3 miles and turn right onto Grimes Flournoy Rd. Go 1/10 mile; turn left onto Wayne Johnson Rd. Go 0.4 miles and turn right onto Page Cemetery Rd. It is 0.5 miles to cemetery. Nehemiah Page, born in Sampson Co., N. Car., fought in the War of 1812 and survived the Fort Mims attack near Mobile, Ala. He married Elizabeth Crane ... 8716 Pine Grove Missionary Baptist Church 7 mi. east of Diboll on FM 1818 Organized 1872 by ten members from Lambert's Chapel. First pastor, J. S. Lambert; David Allbritton, clerk. Angelina Missionary Baptist Association ... 8717 Pollok Baptist Church Paul Townsend Rd. (CR 4A) and SH 7, Pollock Founded as Warren Chapel Baptist Church in 1891, this congregation became known as Pollok Baptist Church in 1896. The first meeting place was shared ... 13518 Pollok Cemetery Pollok, West of intersection of US 69N and SH 7 Since the late 1800s, this cemetery has served the residents of the town of Pollok. Before the end of the 19th century, the Pollok community was ... 8718 Prairie Grove 5 mi. east of Diboll at intersection of FM 1818 and CR 263 The community of Prairie Grove began in 1845 and became a place for early settlers to gather. A cemetery began in 1849 when the young daughter of ...

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8719 Redland Baptist Church 4 mi north of Lufkin on US 59, just south of the intersection of FM 2021 Liberty Baptist Church, established in the Redland community in 1859, became Redland Baptist Church after reorganizing in 1895. Worship services ... 18949 Redland School Redland community, LEAD Academy grounds, SW corner Winston 8 Ranch Road (Old Hwy 59) and FM 2021. In April 1846, local engineer William Gordon Lang was assigned to survey Angelina County. He and his wife, Nancy Martin (Bonner) Lang, settled ... 17441 Renfro Cemetery #1 From Lufkin take Farm Road 58 south to Farm Road 1818, turn left, go one fourth of a mile, turn right on Grimes Cemetery Road, proceed one and six thenths miles. On the left is a chain gate, go one half mile to cemetery on left. John Folkner Renfro, Sr. (1797-1859) and wife, Rebecca Harrison Hicks (1808-1869), moved to Texas in 1839 by wagon from Missouri. In 1840, they settled ... 8720 Ryan Chapel from Diboll, take US 59 1 mi. to FM 2497; go NW 1.1 mi. to Ryan Chapel United Methodist Church at intersection with FM 304. Founded 1866, after new settler, Rev. Isaac Ryan, had Methodist revival in home before occupying it. His brother John was one of 19 charter members. ...

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8713 Site of Martin Wagon Company Lufkin Ave. at Fourth St. (NE corner), Lufkin Daniel Webster Martin (d. 1916) and his two sons opened a small wagon shop here in 1908. An inventor and designer, Martin developed various wagons ... 7005 Site of Rehearsal Hall for The Hoo Hoo Band Perry Building, SE corner S. Cotton Square and W. Lufkin Ave. Marker faces W. Lufkin Ave. At the turn of the century, a group of Lufkin men organized a town brass band. It later became known as the Hoo Hoo Band after representing Texas ... 7004 Site of the Town of Homer 10 mi. S of Lufkin on US 69, 1/10 mi. S on FM 326 Also known as Angelina, third county seat of Angelina County, 1858 - 1890. (6 mi. SE Lufkin, US Hwy. 69) 7008 Site of the Town of Jonesville SE of Huntington, SE of intersection with CR 291 (Hundall Road) Site of the town of Jonesville, second county seat of Angelina County, August 22, 1854 - May 19, 1858. 8712 Site of the Town of Marion Marion Ferry Road (FM 1669), north of SH 103 Known as early as 1828 as McNeill's Landing. In 1831 it consisted of over 200 buildings. First county seat of Angelina County 1846 - 1854. Erected ... 8723 Southern Pine Lumber Company Commissary S. First St. at railroad tracks, just north of Mill St. intersection, Diboll The original commissary at this site was constructed about 1894 when T. L. L. Temple (1859 - 1935) started the first Southern Pine Lumber Company ... 8724 Southland Paper Mills, Inc. from US 59 in Lufkin, 1 mi. east on FM 103 First plant to turn southern pines into newsprint. Mill here revolutionized paper industry in the southern United States. Seeking local paper rather ... 8725 Stranger's Rest Cemetery corner of Knight & Walter St., Lufkin R. D. Holland, Sydney Hackney, and S. D. Long, trustees of an Angelina County African American cemetery group, acquired one acre here from the Lufkin ...

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6999 The Gann House Off SH 94 on private property. Map dot approximate. Early Texas double log cabin built of interlocking hewn pine logs. Originally had a "dog trot" (open center hall). Erected before 1860 by John D. ... 8726 Thomas Lewis Latane Temple at T. L. L. Temple Memorial Library, Diboll (1859 - 1935) Virginia native Thomas Lewis Latane Temple, son of Henry W. L. and Susan (Jones) Temple, moved to Texarkana, Texas, in 1877. He married ...

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12642 U.S. Forest Service in Texas Angelina National Forest, 5.5 mi. SE of Zavalla, SH 63 W side, 1.1 mi. SE of FM 2743 This area--heart of the Piney Woods and the East Texas forest industry--was, in 1933, cutover forests and worked-out farms. That year the Texas Legislature ...

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18725 Vicente Micheli 9 miles N- Hwy 59; US Highway 59, .49 miles S of Angelina River Bridge; Within original Micheli Grant Italian-born Vicente Micheli (c.1755-1848) came to North America around 1770 via New Orleans and moved to the Spanish territory of Texas by 1793. ...

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12821 W.C. Trout and the Counter-Balanced Pumping Unit 601 S. Raguet The son of an early industrial engineer, W.C. Trout (1874-1947) came to Lufkin in 1905 and joined Lufkin Foundry & Machine Co. as a shareholder and ... 14371 Walker Cemetery Walker Cemetery, Redland community, E side US 59, across from Winston 8 Ranch Rd. (CR 108) This part of Angelina County has long been called Red Land, or Redland, for the red soil ridge that forms the center of the community. In 1846, ... 12819 Whitehouse Cemetery Whitehouse Dr., between US 59S and FM 58S Whitehouse Cemetery According to local tradition, this cemetery may take its name from the 19th-century Cole family home, a structure whose whitewashed ...