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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ6D_machinery-from-early-east-texas-logging-railroads_Lufkin-TX.html
Steam locomotive and tender No. 3 were bought 1908 by Carter-Kelley Lumber Co., for use in building a sawmill at Manning(about 18 mi. south); then in railroad building, logging, and passenger and freight hauling schedules. The 1906 wood-burning st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ45_city-of-lufkin_Lufkin-TX.html
Founded 1882. Soon became a thriving sawmill community. Named for E.P. Lufkin, chief of crew that surveyed railroad through town. Has been county seat of Angelina County since 1892. Now a regional manufacturing and commerce center. Products includ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIYD_first-united-methodist-church-of-lufkin_Lufkin-TX.html
Margaret (Fullerton) Abney, born in Alabama in 1829, joined the Methodist church with her family at a camp meeting held at nearby McKendree campground in 1863. Because the nearest Methodist church was ten miles away, Mrs. Abney held bible study me…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMII8_lindsey-springs-logging-camp_Lufkin-TX.html
The naturally occurring Lindsey Springs, located approximately 3/4 of a mile northeast of this location, became the site in 1899 of the Southern Pine Lumber Company's first logging camp. The springs provided an important water source for this vita…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI3Y_angelina_Lufkin-TX.html
In 1690, when Spain's Franciscan Fathers founded Mission San Francisco de los Tejas in East Texas, they found a young Indian girl living with her people beside a stream. The priests found her a willing ally for carrying the Catholic Faith to the I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI3W_first-baptist-church-of-lufkin_Lufkin-TX.html
Chartered with nine members, the Lufkin Baptist Church began conducting worship services soon after rail lines reached the townsite in the early 1880s. The Houston, East & West Texas Railroad donated land at this site to Joesph Kerr, E.H.F. McMull…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI3F_site-of-martin-wagon-company_Lufkin-TX.html
David Webster Martin (d. 1916) and his two sons opened a small wagon shop here in 1908. An inventor and designer, Martin developed various wagons for use in the lumber industry. In partnership with B.L. Zeagler, he incorporated the operation as th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHV0_original-site-of-st-cyprians-episcopal-church_Lufkin-TX.html
The first Episcopal service in Lufkin was held in 1893 by the Rev. George L. Crocket for the W.G. Barron and R.B. Shearer families. St. Mary's Mission was established in 1895 by the Rev. C.M. Beckwith, but the congregation did not have a permanent…
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