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Calder (Cotton) Square

Lufkin, Angelina County

Marker Text

City's hub, 1882- early 1900s, teeming with cotton buying, horse trades, band concerts, political rallies, switching railroad trains. Site of fire station, standpipe, 1933 memorial library named for lumberman J. H. Kurth (1857 - 1930), Square was renamed 1961 for Kurth family friend, Louis Calder (1879 - 1963) of New York.

Marker Details

Address
Location Description Cotton Square at Lufkin Avenue
Marker # 6984
Dedicated 1972
Size, Type 20" x 20"
Code parks
Latitude, Longitude Exact Lat/Lon Unknown

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