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Center civic, social and business affairs, early Polk County. Built about 1848 by James Andress, from South Carolina. Contained restaurant, saloon, grocery store, post office, stage station. Had livery stable nearby. Among noted guests was General…
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World-famed genius of drama. Won Broadway acclaim directing "The Glass Menagerie". Led move to decentralize American theatre. Established, in Dallas, theatre-in-the-round (first professional, resident, repertory theatre of its kind) and wrote book…
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During Civil War, 1861-65, an area of piney woods, farms, thickets, with an Alabama-Coushatta Indian reservation. Had only 600 voters in 1860 but sent 900 soldiers into the Confederate Army. Furnished 4 units to Hood's Texas Brigade (Co. B, 1st Re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14PF_polk-county-courthouse_Livingston-TX.html
Completed in 1924, this is the fifth courthouse to serve Polk County. Citing "lack of space and modern conveniences," the Commissioners Court hired the Houston architectural firm of McLelland & Fink to design their new building. Contractor Isaac Y…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14JJ_1905-courthouse-annex_Livingston-TX.html
Washington at Church StreetBuilt in 1905
Listed in theNational Register of Historic Placesby the United StatesDepartment of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14GJ_polk-county_Livingston-TX.html
Created from Liberty CountyMarch 30, 1846Organized July 13, 1846with Livingston as county seatNamed forJames Knox Polk, 1795-1849President of the United StatesWho favoredthe annexation of TexasEarly settlements wereDrew's Landing, Mariana, Swartou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11SS_midway-cemetery_Livingston-TX.html
Andrew A. (1816-1898) and Mary Barnes (1817-1857) McKee came to Texas in 1845 and purchased land here in 1854. Mary, who died in childbirth, was the first person buried here. According to local tradition, just prior to her death Mary marked this s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11SG_old-city-cemetery_Livingston-TX.html
This historic graveyard began in 1840 with the burial of four-year-old Josephus Choate, son of Moses Livingston Choate (1794-1867) and Ursula Choate (1807-c. 1880). Early pioneers from Kentucky, the Choates moved to Texas and received a league of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXK8_greenfield-cemetery_Livingston-TX.html
In 1846, local officials designated a block in the central part of Livingston for use as a cemetery for local African Americans. Originally called Livingston Colored Cemetery, the burial ground was bounded by Feagin, Tyler, Sherman and Houston str…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXK7_locomotive-no-5_Livingston-TX.html
Built in 1911 by Philadelphia's Baldwin Locomotive Works, this locomotive was first used to transport timber in Florida. In the 1920's it was purchased for use in Texas' logging industry by the Angelina County-based Carter-Kelley Lumber Company. T…