Arts and Culture in Lufkin, TX

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Educational materials in the Company Store extend the visitors experience of the museum. Books, games, Smokey B...

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The Angelina County School Board created Fairview Common School District Number 69 in the late 1800s. A one-room scho...

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Liberty Baptist Church, established in the Redland community in 1859, became Redland Baptist Church after reorganizin...

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Founded 1882. Soon became a thriving sawmill community. Named for E.P. Lufkin, chief of crew that surveyed railroad t...

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First plant to turn southern pines into newsprint. Mill here revolutionized paper industry in the southern United Sta...

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The naturally occurring Lindsey Springs, located approximately 3/4 of a mile northeast of this location, became the s...

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The first Episcopal service in Lufkin was held in 1893 by the Rev. George L. Crocket for the W.G. Barron and R.B. She...

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At the turn of the century, a group of Lufkin men organized a town brass band. It later became known as the Hoo Hoo B...

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In 1854 W.W. Manning established a drugstore and sawmill in this area, and named the community after his former home ...

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Steam locomotive and tender No. 3 were bought 1908 by Carter-Kelley Lumber Co., for use in building a sawmill at Mann...

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Born here, in now-razed house, Oct. 5,1907, to Robert and Easter C. Shivers, pioneer East Texas family. As youth, wor...

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A Christian church was organized in Angelina County about 1884 in Homer, the county seat. When the railroad line from...

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This school traces its origin to five small schools in the Pollok-Central area; Union, Durant, Pollok, Clawson, and A...

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By the 1930s, radio has become an established medium for commercial advertising. In 1938, commercial radio came to An...

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