On North Mallard Street (State Highway 19), on the right when traveling south.
Born in Kickapoo (Anderson Co.) in 1901, Homer Garrison was the son of Mattie (Milam) and Homer Garrison, Sr. The family moved to Angelina County, where Homer, Sr. served as District Clerk. Homer, Jr. graduated from Lufkin High School and worked for . . . — — Map (db m128944) HM
On Wilson Street at Andrews Street, on the right when traveling south on Wilson Street.
J. Vance Lewis was an attorney and community activist for the African-American community in Houston. Born enslaved circa 1863 in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, Lewis attended Leland University in New Orleans before earning a teaching certificate . . . — — Map (db m170863) HM
On Park Street south of Weber / Farrington Street, on the left when traveling south.
Virginia native Thomas Lewis Latane Temple, son of Henry W.L. and Susan (Jones) Temple, moved to Texarkana, Texas, in 1877. He married Georgie D. Fowlkes in 1880. In 1893 Temple organized the Southern Pine Lumber Company in Texarkana and began . . . — — Map (db m30374) HM
On West Church Street (U.S. 190) at North Drew Street, on the right when traveling east on West Church Street.
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. . . . — — Map (db m49730) HM
On U.S. 59 0.4 miles north of Bates Road (County Highway 118-B), on the right when traveling north.
Italian-born Vicente Micheli (c.1755-1848) came to North America around 1770 via New Orleans and moved to the Spanish Territory of Texas by 1793. He settled first in Nacogdoches and later received a grant of land near this site. His grant was the . . . — — Map (db m160411) HM
On Laurel Street, on the right when traveling west.
Members of the Mantooth family came to Angelina County in 1858. Albert Edwin (Eddie) Mantooth (1874-1969) was born in Homer, Angelina County, to Albert and Mary Richard Hall Mantooth. In 1897, Eddie married Sarah Annie Atkinson Mantooth (1879-1914). . . . — — Map (db m58779) HM
On State Highway 69 at Massey Road, on the right when traveling south on State Highway 69.
Camp Nancy began as one of the many logging camps established in the piney woods of East Texas during the early 20th century. The camp was first created in Nacogdoches County, but was moved to the Angelina County community of Dunkin ca. 1918. Once . . . — — Map (db m37285) HM
On Clepper Drive at Bessie Price Owen Drive, on the left when traveling east on Clepper Drive.
Nickolas Crane (b.1830) came to Texas from Alabama, 1848, and in 1850s married Mary Ann Havard. A Confederate veteran of the Civil War, he built this large cabin on the Angelina County land claim that he occupied in 1867. Walls were of pine logs . . . — — Map (db m186667) HM
On Magnolia Street south of Watts Avenue, on the left when traveling south.
Jackson County has seen many governments. The first European settlement in the Mississippi gulf coast area was at present-day Ocean Springs in 1699. The French found the area already occupied by several American Indian tribes, with the primary . . . — — Map (db m117281) HM
On County Road 843 south of U.S. 69, on the right when traveling south.
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 . . . — — Map (db m28290) HM
On North Second Street at Howe Avenue on North Second Street.
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 . . . — — Map (db m27249) HM
On Farm to Market Road 324 1 mile west of U.S. 59, on the left when traveling west.
The Houston East and West Texas (HE&WT) Railroad came through Angelina County in 1882 and a community named Bitterweed Flat developed here. In 1913 W.E. Hoshall purchased land and timber rights in the area and began shipping logs from Hoshall Switch . . . — — Map (db m36108) HM
On Spence Street, on the right when traveling south.
Chartered in August 1900 and headquartered in the sawmill town of Keltys, the Angelina and Neches River (A&NR) Railroad began as a small short line railroad to move logs from the woods of East Texas to the mills of the Angelina County Lumber . . . — — Map (db m29735) HM
On State Highway 7 at Main Street (Farm to Market Road 357), on the left when traveling west on State Highway 7.
The town of Kennard was founded in 1903 by the Louisiana and Texas Lumber Company and platted on 160 acres. Land agent Alexander McTavish also acted as Kennard's first postmaster. The town served as a terminus for the Eastern Texas Railroad, a . . . — — Map (db m290769) HM
On Old Tyler Road at West Main Street (State Highway 21), on the left when traveling north on Old Tyler Road.
Vertical-piston drive and direct-gear design was patented, 1880, by Ephraim Shay. This 36-ton engine was built by Lima Locomotive and Machine Co., 1907, for Behring Co. of Texas, and soon purchased by W.T. Carter & Bro. Lumber Co. Carter used it . . . — — Map (db m211291) HM
On U.S. 69 at County Road 2626, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 69.
As the population increased in Angelina and Cherokee counties in the 1860s, a formal system of roads began to take shape. Until that time, roads were usually forged by farmers and other pioneers carrying goods to market or traveling to new homes, as . . . — — Map (db m28167) HM
On Mantooth Ave at North Raguet Street on Mantooth Ave.
Judge E.J. Mantooth was born in Cocke County, Tennessee, on April 10, 1852. He moved with his family to Angelina County in 1857. He attended private school in Texas, since there were no public schools. He graduated from Cumberland University, . . . — — Map (db m268208) HM
On Homer Cemetery Road at Jim Fenley Loop, on the left when traveling south on Homer Cemetery Road.
In 1854 W.W. Manning established a drugstore and sawmill in this area, and named the community after his former home in Homer, Louisiana. In 1856 Homer was chosen as Angelina County seat, following a mandate from the Texas Legislature to locate a . . . — — Map (db m31713) HM
On Wailer Street at Knight Ave, on the right when traveling north on Wailer Street.
R.D. Holland, Sydney Hackney, and S.D. Long, trustees of an Angelina County African American Cemetery Group, acquired one acre here from the Lufkin Land & Timber Co., in 1905. Recorded burials began in 1901. The graveyard was first known as Frost . . . — — Map (db m268203) HM
On South Timberland Drive (Business U.S. 59) east of S First Street, on the right when traveling north.
Located near present-day Hurricane Creek, earlier known as
Brushy Creek, Denman Springs was a small rural community
serving the surrounding settlers until folding into the
newer town of Lufkin. The origins of the community lie in the
six natural . . . — — Map (db m289535) HM
On Winston 8 Ranch Road at Farm to Market Road 2021, on the left when traveling north on Winston 8 Ranch Road.
In April 1846, local engineer William Gordon Lang was assigned to survey Angelina County, he and his wife, Nancy Martin (Bonner) Lang, settled this area in 1854, and other settlers followed, including William Manson Perkins. Early settlers held . . . — — Map (db m268212) HM
On U.S. 59 at Old Highway 59 (County Road 107), on the right when traveling north on U.S. 59.
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 . . . — — Map (db m26869) HM
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