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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/HMJH7_central-consolidated-school_Pollok-TX.html
This school traces its origin to five small schools in the Pollok-Central area; Union, Durant, Pollok, Clawson, and Allentown. An effort to solve the problem of inadequate funding for each of these rural schools led to their consolidation in 1929 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJGZ_pollok-cemetery_Pollok-TX.html
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 established near a railroad. Here, Richard Blair built the settlement's first sawmill, setting Pollok'…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJGY_pollok-baptist-church_Pollok-TX.html
Founded as Warren Chapel Baptist Church in 1891, this congregation became known as Pollok Baptist Church in 1896. The first meeting place was shared by the Methodist and Presbyterian churches. Land acquired in 1906 by the Baptists was the site of …
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJF0_kerrs-inc_Lufkin-TX.html
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 (5 mi. SE). It was started by Civil War veteran Capt. Joseph Kerr (B. 1828), a native of South Carol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJEV_site-of-rehearsal-hall-for-the-the-hoo-hoo-band_Lufkin-TX.html
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 at a national convention of the Order of Hoo Hoo, an organization of American and Canadian lumbermen.…