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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJA5_southland-paper-mills-inc_Lufkin-TX.html
First plant to turn southern pines into newsprint. Mill here revolutionized paper industry in the southern United States. Seeking local paper rather than foreign supplies, Southland was incorporated in 1938 and began operations, 1940. Its mills ma…
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/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/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/HMITQ_gann-memorial-cemetery_Pollok-TX.html
This burial ground, which contains over 3,000 graves, has served area residents since the mid-1800s. In 1860, Nathan W. Gann, who came to Texas with his family in 1836, donated this property and a church building he constructed to Williams Chapel …
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…