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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPAX_ryan-chapel_Diboll-TX.html
Founded 1866, after new settler, Rev. Issac Ryan, had Methodist revival in home before occupying it. His brother John was one of 19 charter members. L.H.D. and Sallie Guinn gave 7.5 acres for church and cemetery. First 16 by 20-ft. church had punc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP48_fairview-school_Lufkin-TX.html
The Angelina County School Board created Fairview Common School District Number 69 in the late 1800s. A one-room schoolhouse was built that served students from a wide rural area. The first school term, in 1898, was five months long. Fairview Sch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOXT_u-s-forest-service-in-texas_Zavalla-TX.html
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 authorized the establishment of national forests in the state. Today Angelina, Davy Cro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOXC_camp-nancy_Zavalla-TX.html
Camp Nancy began as one of the many logging camps established in the piney woods of East Texas during the early 20th century. The camp was first created in Nacogdoches County, but was moved to the Angelina County community of Dunkin ca. 1918. Once…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOWA_site-of-the-town-of-jonesville_Huntington-TX.html
Site of the town ofJonesvilleSecond county seat ofAngelina CountyAugust 22, 1854 · ·· May 19,1858
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO4S_berry-cemetery_Lufkin-TX.html
In 1850, Samuel and Elizabeth Berry brought their family and slaves here from Limestone Co., Alabama. Samuel's plantation covered hundreds of acres and included a cotton gin and gristmill. Berry Cemetery began in 1863 when Samuel's grandson and na…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO4Q_hoshall_Lufkin-TX.html
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 W.E. Hoshall purchased land and timber rights in the area and began shipping logs from Hoshall Swit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNBT_huntington_Huntington-TX.html
Settlers attempted to form a townsite in this area in the 1890s, but it was not until the arrival of the railroad lines that it attracted a thriving population. Carved from virgin forests in the heyday of the southern pine timber industry and esta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLFB_ewing_Huntington-TX.html
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 near a rail line and virgin hardwood forests. In 1919 H.G. Bohissen purchased a 100-acre tract of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLF7_joseph-herrington_Huntington-TX.html
When Angelina County was organized in 1845, Alabama native Joseph Herrington (1823-89) was one of six men appointed by the legislature who set boundary lines and selected Marion as the first seat of government. That same year, at the age of 22, he…