Born on a farm in Gregg County, Tom Dean became pastor of the First Christian Church in Jacksonville in 1909, four years before graduating from Texas Christian University. He led efforts to establish the town's public library and first Boy Scout . . . — — Map (db m232774) HM
In 1854-61, Fairfield civic and political leader helped found first newspaper here. Served as district judge. A key member of Texas Secession Convention. 1861 Confederate congressman.
Organized 7th Texas Infantry. As Brigadier General, led . . . — — Map (db m152971) HM
Thomas Mitchell Campbell (1856-1923), a native of Rusk, worked in the Gregg County Clerk's Office in Longview before becoming a lawyer in 1878, the same year he married Fannie Bruner. This small frame cottage served as their first home. Campbell was . . . — — Map (db m290281) HM
David Sutton Meredith Jr. was born in Longview on July 22, 1902. After graduating from the University of Texas, he began practicing law in Longview in 1926. That same year, he was elected County Judge of Gregg County. He served one term and then . . . — — Map (db m290332) HM
Several families from Alabama moved to Texas in the early 1830s, building homes in this area and creating the community known as Pine Tree. Sometime before 1860, A.T. Castleberry II designated 1.5 acres of his land for a cemetery. Family as well as . . . — — Map (db m290268) HM
About 1848, O. H. Methvin (1815-1882) and his father Richard came to Texas from Georgia. O. H. Methvin bought about 1,200 acres in East Texas, including this site, which was his cornfield. He built a home on nearby Rock Hill for . . . — — Map (db m88853) HM
By 1920, Longview boasted 9 1/2 miles of paved streets, concrete sidewalks, electric street lights, municipal garbage collection and a paid fire department with the state's first two pumping trucks. In 1920, the Longview Rotary Club was organized as . . . — — Map (db m89262) HM
The rich farming land and timber forests in what is now known as Gregg County was first settled in 1835 under the Republic of Mexico and then under the Republic of Texas. In 1838, the republic began to issue land grants and, by 1858, the area was . . . — — Map (db m290269) HM
Georgia native O.H. Methvin came to Texas about 1848 with his wife Margaret and his father, Richard R. Methvin. They settled on land in Upshur County which would later become a part of Gregg County. In 1870 Methvin gave 100 acres of land to the . . . — — Map (db m290334) HM
First settlers—families of Andrew Agnew, Isaac Agnew, Fletcher Fields, David McKinley, Allis Smith and W.W. Smith—arrived in a wagon train from Gregg County, Jan. 6, 1876. Area was known for hardships: Indian raids, vigilante activities, . . . — — Map (db m89572) HM
David Sutton Meredith was born on February 2, 1869 in Brunswick County, Virginia. Meredith came to Rusk County, Texas in 1891 and married Minnie Burr Fisher, a native of Berlin, Tennessee. They moved to Longview in 1895. In November 1916, Meredith . . . — — Map (db m290331) HM
At one time, nearly all the cotton crops in the state of Texas were grown in east Texas. As with most of the south, cotton played a major role in the Longview economy.
The emergence of "King Cotton" as a marketable cash crop, coupled . . . — — Map (db m89013) HM
Named for "long view" from Rock Hill when surveyors laid off townsite in 1870. Incorporated June 24, 1871. Became county seat of Gregg County; also railroad, agricultural and lumber center. Its history includes an 1894 bank robbery-- the last raid . . . — — Map (db m218644) HM
Historic rural community in oil-rich Gregg County. Settled before Civil War. Has also been known as Sabine, Mount Moriah, McCary's Chapel, Goforth and Hog Eye (for an early settler with an "eye" for hogs). Present name adopted in early days of . . . — — Map (db m139144) HM
Black gold! Suddenly, the Great Depression was forgotten with the late 1930 discovery of the East Texas Oil Field, biggest in the world. Trapped in a layer of porous sandstone called the Woodbine formation 3,600 feet below the surface, the field was . . . — — Map (db m89263) HM
In the 1850s, most slaves had contact with organized Christian churches and after Emancipation a great number of African Americans became Baptist because they were free to establish their own churches under their own governance. Schools and churches . . . — — Map (db m291175) HM
In 1855 Alabama-born John Tyson Smith moved with his parents to Upshur County Texas. A Confederate veteran, he settled in Longview about 1872. He served as City Tax Assessor and was Justice of the Peace for two terms. He was elected to five terms . . . — — Map (db m290333) HM
Soon after organizing in 1934 Longview's Federation of Women's Clubs began raising funds for a community center. The federation produced matching funds for an appropriation of the Gregg County Commissioners Court to build this structure in 1940. It . . . — — Map (db m290280) HM
The last decade of Longview's first hundred years was a time of historic and fundamental change. In 1962, the "slant hole" scandal brought unfavorable national attention to the East Texas Oil Field. (This illegal process actually pioneered . . . — — Map (db m89276) HM
Descendant of a Huguenot family who migrated to America in 1736, Oliver H. Pegues came to Texas with his parents from his native Mississippi in 1850. He moved to Longview in 1871 and became the town's first postmaster, Jan. 27, 1871. Pegues served . . . — — Map (db m291084) HM
The end of World War II ushered in a long period of national prosperity, and Longview thrived thanks to the East Texas Oil Field and associated natural gas. Construction in Longview during the 1950s rivaled or exceeded that of the 1930s. Major . . . — — Map (db m89275) HM
Respected Longview citizen. Married Clara Harris, daughter of Gregg County pioneer family.
Active in civic affairs, first elected to public office, 1910, as city marshal and district clerk. County sheriff 1924-1932. Seldom carried a gun - . . . — — Map (db m291086) HM
Gregg County was formed in 1873, and Longview was chosen as county seat. The first temporary courthouse was a small building at the corner of Fredonia and Tyler streets. It soon proved inadequate, however, and another temporary courthouse was set . . . — — Map (db m89019) HM
Andrews County produced it’s 2nd billionth barrel of crude oil August 21, 1981. Sixteen years and 96 days after its first billionth barrel came from beneath the county’s 1500 square miles.
In producing two billion barrels in 52 years, Andrews . . . — — Map (db m61378) HM
Following emancipation, many African American congregations were founded in east Texas in the 1870s, asfreedmen, they wanted their own places to worship in their own communities. Established in the Judson community in 1870, Sherman chapel missionary . . . — — Map (db m164456) HM
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* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
