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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIYE_redland-baptist-church_Lufkin-TX.html
Liberty Baptist Church, established in the Redland community in 1859, became Redland Baptist Church after reorganizing in 1895. Worship services were held in a local schoolhouse until 1924 when the congregation built its first sanctuary. A new chu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHUJ_walker-cemetery_Lufkin-TX.html
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, Thomas R. Walker moved into the area from North Carolina. In 1851, he wed Emily Z. Briscoe, and the cou…