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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJX6_angelina-county_Lufkin-TX.html
Created and organized in 1846. Originally a part of Nacogdoches County. Bears the name of the river traversing the region. The following towns have served as the county seat; Marion,1846-1854; Jonesville,1854-1858; Homer, Feb. 3 - May 17, 1858, wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJWX_w-c-trout-and-the-counter-balanced-pumping-unit_Lufkin-TX.html
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 company secretary. Already a successful inventor, Trout led the diversification of the shop from eq…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJWQ_lufkin-foundry-and-machine-company_Lufkin-TX.html
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, Sr., Frank Kavanaugh, Jr., Eli Wiener and Simon Henderson. Later, under the leadership of W.C.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJTS_angelina-neches-river-railroad_Lufkin-TX.html
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 railroad to move logs from the woods of East Texas to the mills of the Angelina County Lumber Compa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJT6_whitehouse-cemetery_Lufkin-TX.html
According to local tradition, this cemetery may take its name from the 19th-century Cole family home, a structure whose whitewashed exterior stood out from the majority of other log houses and frame buildings in the area. It lies on what was once …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJMP_german-pows-in-the-east-texas-timber-industry_Lufkin-TX.html
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 425,000 military prisoners to 511 camps in the U.S. Approximately 50,000 of those POWs, primarily G…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJM4_the-civilian-conservation-corps-and-forestry-in-texas_Lufkin-TX.html
Continuing efforts started in the 1920s by the Texas Forest Service (TFS),the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), established through the Emergency Conservation Work Act (1933) during the Great Depression, aided in efforts to preserve Texas forests…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJK9_lufkin-telephone-exchange_Lufkin-TX.html
Telephone service in Lufkin began 1898 when Dr. Alexander Madison Denman and his friend Judge Edwin James Mantooth strung telephone wires between their offices. The system was so popular that the pair soon formed the Lufkin Telephone Exchange with…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJGB_the-depot-explosion-and-mystery_Lufkin-TX.html
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 of transportation and trade. Although a body was not discovered, it was presumed a railroad empl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJG7_calder-cotton-square_Lufkin-TX.html
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.HG. Kurth (1857-1930), square was ren…