Every year the little town of Corrigan held a homecoming at the cemetery, and every year it printed a souvenir program with one person's picture on the front. Read those choices in order and you get a portrait of a town deciding who it is. The first two programs, at the start of the forties, carried Douglas Corrigan, the pilot the whole country called Wrong Way, who had filed for California in nineteen thirty eight and landed in Ireland claiming he read his compass backward. The Corrigan Press told its readers that his grandfather on his father's side had named this town. Worth knowing: the standard histories do not bear that out. They credit the name to Pat Corrigan, the conductor on the first train through when the railroad came in the eighteen eighties, and they give the flyer a different grandfather. So the claim is probably wrong, and the town made it anyway, twice, in print. That is not a lie so much as a small place reaching out and claiming a famous man with its own name on him. The third year the face was M. T. Hickman Senior, described by the paper as a Corrigan centenarian and a veteran of the Civil War, and he came in person as guest of honor. Think about the arithmetic. A man who had been a soldier in the eighteen sixties, sitting in a folding chair at a cemetery homecoming while his neighbors' sons shipped out for the Pacific. And then the fourth year, nineteen forty three, the picture was James Vinson, who the paper said was killed at Pearl Harbor and was Corrigan's first loss of the Second World War. Three years. A folk hero the town wanted to be related to, the last man alive from an old war, and the first boy lost in a new one.

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Corrigan, Texas, sits right in the heart of the East Texas timber country, and that's no accident. This town has always been deeply rooted in the lumber industry. The tall, straight pines that blanket the rolling hills around here are ideal for milling, and that's what built Corrigan. Back in the late 19th century, when the railroads started pushing through the region, Corrigan became a natural hub for shipping timber out to the rest of the country. Sawmills sprang up, drawing folks looking for work, and the town grew along with the industry. Even now, you can still see evidence of that heritage everywhere, from the names of local businesses to the stories shared around the dinner table. The land is ideal for pine growth, and generations of families have passed down the knowledge of managing and harvesting this precious resource responsibly, ensuring that Corrigan will continue to be a timber town for years to come.

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Corrigan, Texas, nestled in the heart of Polk County, owes its existence to the timber that once stood tall and dense across these rolling hills. While indigenous peoples, particularly the Alabama-Coushatta, knew and lived on this land for centuries before, the town as we know it began to take shape in the late 19th century, when the railroad pushed its way through the thick piney woods. The Houston, East and West Texas Railway, nicknamed the "Rabbit," arrived, and with it came opportunity. Lumber mills sprang up, drawn by the seemingly endless supply of longleaf pine. Families arrived, seeking work and a new life in this burgeoning community. The air would have been thick with the scent of freshly cut wood, the sounds of steam-powered saws echoing through the trees. Life was likely hard, but there was a sense of purpose, of building something from the ground up. General stores appeared, offering supplies to the loggers and their families. Churches and schools followed, solidifying Corrigan as more than just a lumber camp, but a true town, connected to the wider world by the iron rails that brought it to life.

Mullican, Aubrey Wilson [Moon]

1920

Moon Mullican, "King of the Hillbilly Piano Players" was born Aubrey Wilson Mullican near Corrigan or Moscow in Polk County, Texas, on March 29, 1909. He was the son of Oscar Luther and Virginia (Jordan) Mullican. He lived on his family's eighty-seven-acre farm at Corrigan during his childhood and developed his musical skills on a pump organ his father purchased around 1917. The elder Mullican, a deeply religious man, wanted his children to learn sacred music. Though Moon served as a church organist during his teens, he developed an interest in blues music and learned to play the guitar with instruction from a black farmer. Impressed also by pianists who performed in local juke joints, Mullican developed a distinctive two-finger right-handed piano style that became his trademark. Much to the chagrin of his father, he began to play for dances as a teenager and aspired to become a professional musician. When he was about sixteen years old he moved to Houston and worked as a piano player for establishments that some observers characterized as "houses of ill repute." Sleeping by day and working evenings, Mullican may have received his nickname for his nocturnal habits during this period. For a time in the 1930s he performed with his own band in clubs and on the radio in Southeast Texas and Louisiana. Later in that decade and in the 1940s he became associated with bands that performed the western swing music made famous by Bob Wills . Mullican played and sang this music with the Blue Ridge Playboys, a band that included such pioneers as Pappy Selph , Floyd Tillman , and Ted Daffan ; he later worked with Cliff Bruner 's bands, the Texas Wanderers and the Showboys. While with Bruner, a former member of Milton Brown's Musical Brownies , Mullican sang the lead vocal on the classic "Truck Driver's Blues" in 1939. That same year he traveled to Hollywood, where he played a role in the movie Village Barn Dance . He also led the band that performed with James Houston Davis during the latter's successful campaign for the Louisiana governor's office in 1944. By 1947 Mullican, who had made his first recording in 1931, had signed a contract with King Records of Cincinnati, Ohio. With King he recorded two songs, Harry Choates 's "New Jole Blon" (1947) and "I'll Sail My Ship Alone" (1950), that sold over a million copies each. The King recordings, which numbered 100, featured Mullican's smooth vocals and a piano style that merged swing, blues , honky-tonk, Cajun, ragtime, pop, and country music . During his years with the King label (1947 to 1956), Mullican had great success with such best-selling recordings as "Sweeter than the Flowers" (1948), Huddie Ledbetter 's "Goodnight Irene" (1950), "Mona Lisa" (1950), and "Cherokee Boogie" (1951), which he coauthored with W. C. Redbird. He was less successful commercially with "Foggy River," "Sugar Beet," "Well Oh Well," "Moon's Tune," "Good Deal Lucille," "You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry," "Rocket to the Moon," "A Thousand and One Sleepless Nights," and others. In some of the King recording sessions Mullican was accompanied by a rock-and-roll band that featured a saxophone player. In 1949 he joined the cast of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was probably the first singing piano player to perform as a solo act on a regular basis. He remained with the show until 1955. During his career he traveled and performed across the United States as well as in Europe and Vietnam and entertained with such well-known artists as Hank Williams, Ernie Ford, and Red Foley. At one stage in his career, Mullican had his own radio show on station KECK in Odessa. He also appeared as a guest on the ABC television program Jubilee U.S.A. and entertained periodically on the Big D Jamboree in Dallas. Mullican, who in conjunction with partners owned several nightclubs in Texas, served as a supporting musician on more than 200 recordings by other performers. The legendary singer Jim Reeves was a member of a Mu

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Abbott Springs Meadows Cemetery

1835

This pioneer graveyard served the early settlement of Asia in what was previously Trinity county. In 1835, Samuel Crissman received a headright of land on Peses (Paces) Creek, and by the 1850s the community of Asia developed. W. Elias and Susan (Towns) meadows were here by 1853, joined later by the Amos and Cynthia (Johnson) Snell and James and Milley Ann (Silcox) Standley families. James Standley’s cabinet and blacksmith shops became the nucleus of the Asia community. The Abbott Springs Meadows Cemetery was likely located on either the Standley or Meadows property. In the mid-1880s, the Trinity and Sabine Railway built through the area and the Sam Allen Lumber Company of Houston constructed a sawmill at Asia. Many new residents arrived, and a school was built to serve the children of the loggers and millworkers. The decline of the lumber industry, due to overharvesting of the timber before 1910, led to the demise of the community. The earliest gravestones here are no longer legible, with several burials marked by fieldstones. The oldest dated burial, of RoxieJ. Standley, dates from January 1868. All graves face east toward Paces Creek, and native hardwoods and plants form the cemetery’s natural landscape. Tombstones reflect organizations such as masons, woodmen of the world, and KJZT (katolika jednota zen texaska, a Czech Catholic fraternal organization). Military veterans includeJames B. Standley (U.S.-Mexico war) and W. Elias Meadows (Civil War). With the decline of the Asia community the site was abandoned and became overgrown. In the 1990s, descendants of those buried here restored the community burial ground.

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Corrigan, TX (Bee County)

1835

Corrigan (Corrigan Settlement), six miles east of Skidmore on Aransas Creek in southern Bee County, was established in 1835 by Irish immigrants and received its name some thirteen years later. The community's earliest settlers included James O'Reilly and Jeremiah O'Toole; O'Toole had moved from Ireland to New York in 1825. In 1826, with hopes of obtaining land from the Mexican government ( see MEXICAN TEXAS ), O'Toole and O'Reilly visited the area on Aransas Creek. After returning to New York, O'Toole took his family aboard the New Packet , which arrived in Texas in 1829. Five years later he acquired 12,000 acres on Aransas Creek. In 1835 the family built a home at a site on the San Patricio-La Bahía road. The area's early settlers attempted ranching but were hindered in their efforts and sometimes forced to flee in the face of Indian attacks and raiding Mexicans. When O'Toole's daughter, Ellen, married Irish immigrant John Corrigan in 1848, the couple built their home on O'Toole's land, and the hamlet that developed was subsequently named Corrigan Settlement. In 1871 Ellen (O'Toole) Corrigan and her brother Martin O'Toole transferred to the bishop of Galveston several acres for a Catholic church and cemetery; the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church and the Campo Santo cemetery were constructed at the site. In 1898 the settlement had a school with one teacher and ten students. By 1936 the community had four or five scattered dwellings. The cemetery, marked by a state historical marker, remained in 1990, when several families resided on nearby lands. At that time the area was still referred to as Corrigan.

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Corrigan, TX (Polk County)

1881

Corrigan is at the junction of U.S. highways 59 and 287 and Farm roads 352 and 942, about 100 miles north of Houston in north central Polk County. Although for several years a few sawmills and farms had been established in the area, the real impetus for community settlement came in 1881, when the Houston, East and West Texas Railway was completed through northern Polk County. The town was named for Pat Corrigan, conductor of the first train through the newly developed site. In 1882 the Trinity and Sabine Railway was also built through the town. Lumber companies, drawn by the good rail connections and huge pine forests, greatly expanded their operations in the Corrigan vicinity; in 1881-82, for example, seventeen sawmills, including the Allen and Williams mill, operated nearby. As the mills continued production, churches and a variety of businesses, including hotels, stores, and gins, opened at Corrigan. A post office opened at the community in 1883; nine years later the Corrigan Index , the first of several newspapers to be published there, printed its first issue. The local economy was diversified by a bottle works, stone quarries, sand pits, and continued agricultural production (especially of cotton, tomatoes, poultry, stock, and dairy products). This diversity allowed Corrigan to withstand periodic depressions in the lumber industry, like the one that closed area sawmills between 1904 and 1907. Timber nonetheless remained the mainstay of the town's economic and social structure. Particleboard plants and the Edens and Burch sawmill, leased by the Corrigan Lumber Company in 1946, proved particularly important. The weekly Corrigan Times , begun in 1953, continued to publish in the 1980s. The town's population, which numbered 461 in 1900, grew to 1,420 in the early 1950s before declining to 986 by 1960. Subsequent growth, however, nearly doubled the population by 1985, when some 1,770 persons lived in the incorporated town. In 1991 the population of Corrigan was reported as 1,816, with sixty-one businesses. In 2000 the population was 1,721, with 114 businesses.

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Corrigan, Town of

1860

Located in piney woods of east Texas. Founded about 1860 by landowner and settler James B. Hendry, who donated property for original townsite. When the Texas & New Orleans Railroad was built through area in the early 1880s, a prosperous timber-based economy developed here. The town was named for T. & N. O. official, Pat Corrigan. In 1884 the Trinity & Sabine Timber Company platted town, and soon a hotel, blacksmith shop, several stores, and a 10-pin (bowling) alley appeared. Today lumber, ranching, and farming undergird economy.

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P. B. Maxey Home

1860

Built early 1860s on a 160-acre tract by P. B. Maxey, farmer and rancher. Constructed of pine logs, using pegs, square nails, and hand-riven shingles, house had two rooms and a kitchen. Remodeled 1947, the home is still in Maxey family. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1968

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Everything Near Corrigan

150 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

Three Years, Three Faces on the Homecoming Program
Every year the little town of Corrigan held a homecoming at the cemetery, and every year it printed a souvenir program with one person's picture on the front. Read those choices in order and you get a portrait of a town…
Corrigan, TX
Corrigan, Texas, sits right in the heart of the East Texas timber country, and that's no accident. This town has always been deeply rooted in the lumber industry. The tall, straight pines that blanket the rolling hills…
Abbott Springs Meadows Cemetery · Historical Marker
This pioneer graveyard served the early settlement of Asia in what was previously Trinity county. In 1835, Samuel Crissman received a headright of land on Peses (Paces) Creek, and by the 1850s the community of Asia…
Mullican, Aubrey Wilson [Moon] · 0.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
Moon Mullican, "King of the Hillbilly Piano Players" was born Aubrey Wilson Mullican near Corrigan or Moscow in Polk County, Texas, on March 29, 1909. He was the son of Oscar Luther and Virginia (Jordan) Mullican. He…
Corrigan, TX (Bee County) · 0.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
Corrigan (Corrigan Settlement), six miles east of Skidmore on Aransas Creek in southern Bee County, was established in 1835 by Irish immigrants and received its name some thirteen years later. The community's earliest…
Corrigan, TX (Polk County) · 0.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
Corrigan is at the junction of U.S. highways 59 and 287 and Farm roads 352 and 942, about 100 miles north of Houston in north central Polk County. Although for several years a few sawmills and farms had been established…
Corrigan, Town of · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker
Located in piney woods of east Texas. Founded about 1860 by landowner and settler James B. Hendry, who donated property for original townsite. When the Texas & New Orleans Railroad was built through area in the early…
P. B. Maxey Home · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker
Built early 1860s on a 160-acre tract by P. B. Maxey, farmer and rancher. Constructed of pine logs, using pegs, square nails, and hand-riven shingles, house had two rooms and a kitchen. Remodeled 1947, the home is still…
Union Springs Baptist Church · 1.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Union Springs Baptist Church. It was organized in the 1860s by the first seven families in the area, with Brother Jimmy Knox serving as the first pastor. The original log cabin church has…
The Sawlog and the Crosstie · 1.9 mi
Imagine two sets of railroad tracks appearing in a dense, unbroken forest. One, the Houston, East and West Texas Railway, pushed through northern Polk County in 1881 and was the main highway of its day; the town that…
The Steel X: Engineering a Town · 1.9 mi
The existence of Corrigan is a direct result of 19th-century civil engineering. Imagine the challenge: laying a perfectly straight line of steel track through the dense, swampy, and uneven terrain of the East Texas…
The Alabama-Coushatta, The People Before the Pines · 1.9 mi
About twenty miles southeast of Corrigan, out past Livingston, you'll find the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas. Their story is woven into this landscape, and it started long before any railroad was laid or town was…

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Pleasant Hill, TX (Live Oak County) · 2.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Live Oak County, and right here, the story of Pleasant Hill began way back on June 23, 1835. An Irishman named Juan Houlihan applied to Mexico for a land grant, and he got it! Later, in 1878, a…
Hobby, William Pettus, Texas Statesman · 5.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the birthplace of William Pettus Hobby, a true Texas statesman. Born near here in 1878, Hobby's life was a whirlwind of influence. He started young, rising to managing editor of the Houston Post at…
First Baptist Church · 5.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the First Baptist Church in Moscow. Built in 1849 by its members, this structure featured square nails and hand-sawn lumber, with pegs used to join the sills, floors, and framing.
Moscow · 5.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Moscow, Texas, a town with a history as unique as its name! Settled by David Green during the Republic of Texas era, it first got a post office in 1847, then officially became Moscow in 1853.…
E. C. Matthews Home · 5.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the E. C. Matthews Home in Moscow, built in 1856 by "Daddy Poe." Take a look at those unique columns, made from hollowed-out pine trees, and the swinging upstairs porch. This house was recorded as a…
Moscow Male and Female Academy · 5.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Moscow Male and Female Academy. It opened its doors sometime before 1857, but then came under Masonic control and was known as the Moscow Masonic Academy. Eventually, it was absorbed…
Moscow, TX · 5.7 mi
In the 1840s, David and Matilda Green first settled the area that would become Moscow, Texas. The first post office was established in 1847 under Green's name. The community's name was changed to Moscow, after Moscow,…
Named For Russia? Not So Fast · 5.8 mi
Here is a fun bit of myth-busting as you pass through Moscow, Texas. It is easy to assume a town called Moscow was named for the Russian capital, with its onion domes and its bitter winters. But hold on. The truth is…
The City That Burned Itself Down · 5.8 mi
The name on the map here is Moscow, and while our little Texas Moscow was not named for the Russian capital in any settled way, the resemblance is worth a story. Because the great Moscow, the one on the Moskva River,…
Red Square Was Never About The Color Red · 5.8 mi
The name of this town, Moscow, might get you thinking about the most famous plaza in the Russian capital, Red Square. Now, nobody is fully sure why this East Texas spot took the name; the founding Green family first…
Why This Piney-Woods Town Is Called Moscow · 5.8 mi
You just rolled through Moscow, Texas, deep in the Polk County piney woods, and no, this is not a little slice of Russia. Here is the honest story, and it is a good one. Back in the eighteen forties a couple named David…
A Kremlin Is Not One Building · 5.8 mi
The sign here reads Moscow, and the real story of how it got that name is a little murky. When David Green could not get his settlement called Greenville, the town took the name Moscow instead, and accounts split on…
The River That May Mean Bear · 5.8 mi
How this East Texas hamlet got the name Moscow is not fully settled. Settlers David and Matilda Green ran a post office here in the eighteen forties and wanted the place called Greenville, but postal authorities refused…
Texas Moscow Versus The Real One · 5.8 mi
Let us play a quick game of Texas Moscow versus the original, now that you have passed the sign. Remember, our Polk County Moscow was not clearly named for Russia at all. Its name is a leftover from a post office that…
Damascus Missionary Baptist Church · 6.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Damascus Missionary Baptist Church, organized way back in 1863. The first pastor was Brother J. R. Dowell. The original log building featured split log benches, later replaced by a…
Hardin, John Wesley, Near Boyhood Home of · 7.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Polk County, not far from where John Wesley Hardin spent his formative years. Born in 1853, Hardin grew up to be one of the most notorious outlaws in Texas history, claiming he killed over 30 men.…
Hardin, William Barnett · 7.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Polk County, passing the site of a true Texas pioneer and soldier, William Barnett Hardin. Born in Tennessee in 1806, Hardin arrived in Texas in 1826, becoming the very first permanent white…
Moscow, Camden & San Augustine Railroad · 7.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Camden, Texas, where history is chugging along a little differently. Look for the old Panama No. 201 locomotive, a veteran of the Panama Canal dig in 1914! This engine, along with a vintage…
Darby, Augustus, Home · 7.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the home of Augustus Darby, built in 1859. What's incredible is how it was built: for six months, twenty-five enslaved people worked to seal this double-log house. They drew square nails from old…
Camden, TX · 7.8 mi
In the early 1900s, Camden was established as a company town by the W. T. Carter & Brother lumber company. Virtually all the housing was built by the company and rented to its employees. This arrangement continued until…
Wheeler Cemetery · 7.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Wheeler Cemetery, which began in 1875 when Jefferson and Hannah Wheeler buried their daughter, Vina, here after a hunting accident. They donated an acre for a neighborhood burying ground. The…
Adams Cemetery · 8.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Adams Cemetery, also known as Lone Pine, Brown, or Adams-Lott Cemetery. It began as a family graveyard for the Lott family, who moved here from Mississippi in 1843. Calvin Lott, son of the founders,…
Clark's Ferry and Clark's Ferry Cemetery · 10.0 mi
You're driving through Angelina County, near Diboll, where I. D. Clark established a vital ferry crossing on the Neches River back in 1856. Picture what that meant: with no bridge and a river few could swim, the Neches…
Lilly Island Cemetery · 10.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Barnes, Texas, passing the Lilly Island Cemetery. This isn't just a graveyard; it's a testament to a community's resilience. Many buried here were formerly enslaved people, some arriving from…
Emporia · 12.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through what used to be Emporia, a company town that sprang up in 1893. The Emporia Lumber Company bought thousands of acres here, and built a whole town from scratch. Imagine it: sawmills, logging camps,…
Emporia Cemetery · 12.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Emporia Cemetery, a quiet resting place that actually predates the timber boomtowns that would later spring up around it. The land was first set aside as a family burial ground, with the earliest…
Nelson Henry Rice Cemetery · 12.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Nelson Henry Rice Cemetery. This burial ground began in 1870 when Nelson Henry Rice deeded land for it, after his daughter-in-law was the first to be interred here. Nelson Henry Rice himself died…
First Methodist Church of Diboll · 12.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Diboll's First Methodist Church. This congregation started around 1897, soon after Diboll became a sawmill town. Early services were held in a local schoolhouse, and they built their…
Peach Tree Village · 13.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Chester, where a place called Peach Tree Village once stood. In the early 1800s, this was the headquarters for the Alabama Indians, who called it 'Ta-Ku-La' – meaning Peach Tree. This spot was a…
Whitehead Home · 13.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Whitehead Home, built way back in 1856 for John S. Whitehead, who was a teacher. This house is made of native, hand-hewn pine, and it's been in the Whitehead family ever since. It was recorded as…
Southern Pine Lumber Company Commissary · 13.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're cruising through Diboll, and right here was the heart of a company town. This commissary, built around 1894, served the Southern Pine Lumber Company. It wasn't just a store; it was a lifeline for lumberjacks and…
Diboll Library, Old · 13.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Old Diboll Library, a building with a story as varied as its occupants. Built around 1908 by T. L. L. Temple, it was originally for his Southern Pine Lumber Company employees. Imagine this place…
Burch-Cauble House · 13.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Chester, and look to your right. You're passing the Burch-Cauble House, built way back in 1835 by Peter Cauble, one of the earliest settlers in this area. Later, it was enlarged by his son-in-law,…
Valentine Burch · 13.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Chester, in Tyler County, where Valentine Burch once stood guard. Born in Kentucky in 1814, Burch was just 22 years old on April 21, 1836. That day, he was detailed to guard the camp near Harrisburg,…
First Baptist Church of Diboll · 13.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're passing the site of Diboll's First Baptist Church. It began in 1897 as a shared Union Church built by the Southern Pine Lumber Company. The Baptists acquired their own land in 1915 and built a larger church…
Farrington, Frances V. Pierce [Fannie] · 13.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, and right here in Diboll, you're passing through a community shaped by the remarkable Fannie Farrington. Arriving in 1903 with her husband and baby, Fannie wasn't just a resident; she…
Temple, Thomas Lewis Latane · 13.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, the heart of a timber empire built by T.L.L. Temple. He arrived in Wayne, Texas, in 1887, and by 1893, he'd organized the Southern Pine Lumber Company. At Diboll, he built a massive…
Diboll · 13.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Diboll, a town born from lumber. In 1894, T. L. L. Temple opened a sawmill here, and by 1900, the Southern Pine Lumber Company ran everything – homes, schools, even the post office. The town was…
Diboll, TX · 13.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Diboll, a town born from pine trees and railroad tracks. In 1894, Thomas Lewis Latane Temple built a sawmill right here, kicking off a company town that would shape the lives of generations. For…
Temple Industries · 13.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, an area built on timber. Right here, near Diboll, you're passing through the heart of what was once Temple Industries. It all started in 1893 when Thomas Temple bought 7,000 acres of…
Texas Southeastern Railroad · 13.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, and right here, in Diboll, you're passing the heart of the Texas Southeastern Railroad. Chartered way back in 1900 by T. L. L. Temple, the founder of the Southern Pine Lumber Company,…
Temple, Arthur, Sr. · 13.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, and right here is the area where the Temple family built a lumber empire. Arthur Temple Sr. took over the family business in the depths of the Great Depression in 1935. He faced tough…
Prairie Grove · 13.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Angelina County, near where the community of Prairie Grove began to take shape way back in 1845. It started as a simple gathering place for early settlers. But the real heart of Prairie Grove…
Organized Southern Pine Lumber Company · 13.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Diboll, a town founded by Thomas Lewis Latane Temple. He moved to Texas in 1877, and by 1893, he organized the Southern Pine Lumber Company. Temple founded this town in 1894 right where his main…
Temple, Thomas Lewis Latane · 13.6 mi · Historical Marker
(1859 - 1935) 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…
Renfro Cemetery #1 · 13.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Angelina County, past the Renfro Cemetery. John Folkner Renfro and his wife Rebecca moved to Texas in 1839, settling this area known as Renfro Prairie in 1840. This cemetery holds members of the…
Feagin Cemetery · 13.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Feagin Cemetery, a final resting place established in 1905. The Feagin family settled here in 1857, and their land was deeded for this public burial ground. It was expanded in 1926 and still serves…
Mount Zion Cemetery · 13.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through rural Trinity County, passing Mount Zion Cemetery. It began serving dispersed communities like Crib Creek and Apple Springs, with the earliest marked stone dating back to 1856. Many veterans are…
Living on Company Scrip · 14.1 mi
Imagine a town where one company owns your house, runs your school, and even prints its own money. For nearly 70 years, that was life in Diboll. T.L.L. Temple’s Southern Pine Lumber Company wasn't just an employer; it…
The Fortune Built on Pines · 14.1 mi
The wealth generated by the forests around Diboll didn't just build a company; it built a philanthropic powerhouse that is still transforming East Texas today. The T.L.L. Temple Foundation was established in 1962 by…
From Wood Waste to Building Blocks · 14.1 mi
As you pass the huge industrial plants in Diboll, you're looking at a place that helped remake the building industry. For decades, sawmills produced mountains of waste: sawdust, shavings, and wood chips. It was a…
The Texan Who Fought a Hostile Takeover · 14.1 mi
In the early 1980s a corporate drama with national implications played out, and the Texan at the center of it was from Diboll. Arthur Temple Jr. had run Temple Industries, the East Texas lumber company his grandfather…
Diboll, TX · 14.1 mi
This East Texas city has been home to individuals who made their mark on the national stage.
Pine Grove Missionary Baptist Church · 14.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Pine Grove Missionary Baptist Church, organized in 1872 by ten members. This church was the founding location for the Angelina Missionary Baptist Association in 1875.
Collins, Carr P. · 14.4 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, maybe near Chester, where Carr P. Collins got his start. He became an insurance magnate, but you might know him for his most famous, or perhaps infamous, business venture in the 1930s:…
Mount Hope Lodge No. 121, A. F. & A. M. · 14.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're cruising through Chester, the oldest town in Tyler County with a Masonic Lodge still going strong. Mount Hope Lodge No. 121 received its charter way back in 1853, but its roots go even deeper. The land it first…
Chester, TX · 14.4 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Chester, Texas, a town born from a railroad line in 1883. It started as Peach Tree Village, but when the Trinity and Sabine Railway laid tracks a mile south, the community packed up and moved. The…
Bethel Baptist Church · 14.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Bethel Baptist Church. Built 1901 for congregation organized Jan. 6, 1849, by Rev. J.W.D. Creath, among settlers from Louisiana.
Foreman, Percy Eugene · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Polk County, not far from where Percy Foreman got his start. Born in a log cabin near Bold Springs in 1902, he was the son of a sheriff, but he ended up defending some of the most notorious…
Lindley, Jonathan · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through what is now Polk County, Texas, and right here, in the fall of 1835, a man named Jonathan Lindley was likely living on land he'd claimed. He was a stockraiser, possibly illiterate, who had come to…
Alabama-Coushatta Indians · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Polk County, not far from Livingston, and you're passing through the historic homeland of the Alabama-Coushatta people. These two closely related tribes, speaking the same language and sharing a…
Antone · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, perhaps near Polk County, where you're passing through the ancestral lands of the Alabama Indians. Right here, about 1806, a man named Antone was elected chief, becoming the first…
Battise, Robert Fulton · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Polk County, the heart of Alabama-Coushatta country. Right here, Fulton Battise served as principal chief for nearly a quarter-century, from 1970 to 1994. Though his role was largely ceremonial,…
Cannon, John Job · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Polk County, Texas, near where Lieutenant Colonel John Job Cannon fought in the Civil War. Cannon, a physician before the war, enlisted in Hood's Texas Brigade in <say-as interpret-as="date"…
Chambers, Caleb Wallace and Mary Emma · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Polk County, right near the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation. For nearly four decades, from 1899 to 1936, Caleb Wallace and Mary Emma Chambers dedicated their lives to this community. Caleb…
Hardin, William Barnett · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, maybe near the town of Moscow, and right here is where William Barnett Hardin carved out a life. He came to Texas in 1826, long before it was even a republic. Hardin fought in the…
Harding, Richard James · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Polk County, near Moscow, where Richard James Harding returned after his studies at the Virginia Military Institute. While at VMI, he was one of a hundred cadets chosen to witness the execution of…
Isaacks, Samuel · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Texas, maybe near the Brazos River, and you're passing through history. Samuel Isaacks, possibly the very first Jewish settler in Texas, arrived here in the 1820s. Stephen F. Austin himself…
Long King's Village · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, perhaps near the shores of Lake Livingston, and right here, in what is now Polk County, was once the heart of Coushatta Nation in Texas. This was Long King's Village, established in…
Oury, William Sanders · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through what was once the wild frontier, and you're passing through the story of William Sanders Oury. He fought in the Texas Revolution, even serving at the Alamo, though he missed the final battle as a…
Sylestine, Bronson Cooper · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Polk County, home to the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation. Right here, Bronson Cooper Sylestine served as principal chief for over three decades, from 1936 to 1969. He was dedicated to his…
Beaumont, Catholic Diocese of · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
The tenth Catholic diocese in Texas, the Diocese of Beaumont, was established on September 29, 1966. On territory now belonging to the diocese occurred some of the earliest Catholic activity in the state. Concerned over…
Battise Trace · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, maybe near Polk or San Jacinto County. Right here, you're traveling a path that was once a vital connection for the Coushatta people. This was the Battise Trace, a route that linked…
Beazley, William Herbert · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through what is now Polk County, Texas, near the Trinity River. Back in the early 1860s, this area was buzzing with Confederate activity. William Herbert Beazley, a physician and former plantation…
Camden, TX (Polk County) · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're rolling through Polk County, and right here is the site of Camden. This town owes its existence to a fire! Back in 1897, the W. T. Carter and Brother Lumber Company's plant at nearby Barnum burned down. A year…
Coushatta Trace · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, and right here, you're on a path used by Native Americans for centuries. This was the Coushatta Trace, a vital trail connecting Louisiana with Spanish Texas. The Coushatta people…
Long King · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through what is now Polk County, and right here, near the Trinity River, you're passing through the heart of Coushatta Indian territory from the early 1800s. This was the home of Long King, the principal…
Moscow, Camden and San Augustine Railroad · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Polk County, near Moscow, and you might just be passing the old stomping grounds of the Moscow, Camden and San Augustine Railroad. Chartered in 1898 by lumber barons, this short line was built to…
Neyland, Robert Reese · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, and right here in Polk County, Robert Reese Neyland was trying to organize Native American cavalry for the Confederacy. In 1861, Neyland was the state agent for the Alabama-Coushatta…
Texas Indian Commission · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, near Polk County, where the only Indian reservation in the state, the Alabama-Coushatta, calls home. Back in 1965, the Texas Legislature created the Commission for Indian Affairs,…
Trinity Land Company · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through what is now Polk County, but back in 1834, this was the wild frontier. A group called the Trinity Land Company organized in New York with a big dream: to settle over 142 leagues of land along the…
Carmona, TX · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Carmona is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 287 and Farm Road 1872, ninety miles northwest of Beaumont in northwestern Polk County. It was named for Juan Carmona, on whose 1833 land grant it was located when it was…
Kickapoo, TX (Polk County) · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Kickapoo was on the east side of the Trinity River near the site of the present-day junction of U.S. Highway 190 and Farm Road 3152, ninety miles north of Houston in western Polk County. A community of settlers was…
Marianna, TX · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Marianna, on the eastern banks of the Trinity River sixty-five miles north of Houston in southern Polk County, was originally named Drew's Landing, in honor of early entrepreneur Monroe Drew, who traded with a group of…
Menard's Chapel, TX · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Menard's Chapel was near Menard Creek and the Trinity River in southwestern Polk County. It was established in 1833 by Pierre J. and Michel B. Menard , who were of French-Canadian origin and had worked in Kaskaskia,…
Moscow, TX · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Moscow is at the junction of U.S. Highway 59 and Farm Road 350, ninety miles north of Houston in central Polk County. The earliest recorded settlers there, David and Matilda Green, settled on the John Dickinson…
Pluck, TX · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Pluck is on Farm Road 352 just over 100 miles north of Houston in north central Polk County. A settlement was established at this site about 1850, and small-scale farming, lumbering, and quarrying operations continued…
Swartwout, TX · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Swartwout (Swartout) is on Lake Livingston and Farm Road 1988, seventy-five miles north of Houston in western Polk County. In 1838 James Morgan, Arthur Garner, and Thomas Bradley laid out a town on the east bank of the…
Hill, James Ewing · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Polk County, and right here is where James Ewing Hill started out. He arrived with his family in Swartwout back in 1842. Before becoming a soldier, legislator, and judge, Hill tried his hand at…
Camp Ruby, TX · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Camp Ruby, also known as Ruby, is on Farm Road 1276 sixty-five miles northwest of Beaumont in south central Polk County. A community was established at the site before the Civil War ; by 1880 residents referred to it as…
New Willard, TX · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
New Willard is on State Highway Loop 116 eight miles north of Livingston and eighty miles north of Houston in central Polk County. Settlement of the region was facilitated by the construction of the Houston, East and…
Segno, TX · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Segno is on Farm roads 943 and 2798, south and west of the Big Sandy Creek and Menard Creek corridors of the Big Thicket National Preserve and sixty-four miles northwest of Beaumont in south central Polk County. Henry…
Wakefield, TX · 14.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Wakefield is on Farm Road 357 105 miles north of Houston in northern Polk County. It was known as Easom before the Civil War . After the completion of the Houston East and West Texas Railway through northern Polk…
Ryan Chapel · 15.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Angelina County, not far from Diboll, where you'll find the site of Ryan Chapel. This Methodist congregation got its start in 1866, thanks to Rev. Isaac Ryan, who held a revival in his home before…
Mount Hope Methodist Church · 15.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Mount Hope Methodist Church. Mount Hope was near Russell’s Creek, two miles north of present-day Chester. At Mount Hope, the road from El Orcoquisac to Nacogdoches intersected the old beef…
Page Cemetery · 15.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the final resting place of Nehemiah Page, a veteran of the War of 1812 who survived the Fort Mims attack. His family moved to Texas in the 1850s, and this became their family cemetery, with his wife…
Beulah School · 16.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Beulah School, which opened its doors way back in 1903. Originally, local folks built and furnished buildings that served as both school and church. A tornado even ripped through here…
The Freedom Colony Jeff Carter Named · 16.2 mi
East of Apple Springs, in northeastern Trinity County, formerly enslaved people organized the farming community of Nigton in 1873. Jeff Carter, a civic leader in the settlement's early years, suggested the name. By 1896…
Burke Methodist Church · 16.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Burke Methodist Church. Founded in 1889 by a small group of Methodists, the congregation received land in 1894, and their first building was finished in 1901. The church has been…
The Fight for the Courthouse · 16.6 mi
The 1914 Trinity County Courthouse in the center of town is more than a building; it's a trophy from a classic Texas county seat war. In 1881 the county seat sat in a small place called Pennington. But the I&GN was…
The Wobble, Bobble, Turnover & Stop · 16.6 mi
Groveton was born a railroad town, but the quirkiest line in this country ran just down the road: the Waco, Beaumont, Trinity and Sabine Railway. Locals gave it a nickname that fit — the 'Wobble, Bobble, Turnover and…
The Little Town That Wouldn't Disappear · 16.6 mi
Burke has been written off before. It boomed early - three sawmills, three cotton gins, a church and a school by 1885, and about 650 people by 1897 - and then Lufkin, eight miles north, became the industrial center of…
The Rabbit Railroad · 16.6 mi
The railroad that created Burke was a cheap, nimble machine, and locals had a name for it: 'The Rabbit.' Officially it was the Houston, East and West Texas Railway, though crews swore the initials stood for 'Hell Either…
A School Built on Hope · 16.6 mi
Out along what's now Martin Luther King Road, near the old neighborhood folks called Red Town, there used to be a school that mattered more than any building in Groveton. In the early 20th century, public education for…
From Groveton to the Super Bowl · 16.6 mi
Every small town dreams of a hometown hero, and for Groveton, that hero is Lane Johnson. As you pass the high school, imagine the football field on a Friday night. That's where Johnson, now a Super Bowl champion and one…
A mill town that won a county · 16.6 mi
The town of Groveton didn't grow organically; it was engineered. In 1881 this was just a patch of forest, named for a stand of blackjack trees. Then the Trinity County and Sabine Pass Land and Railway Company put a…
Burke, TX · 16.6 mi
Founded in 1881, the city's history is closely tied to the Houston, East and West Texas Railway. Initially named Rhodes, it was renamed Burke in honor of Edmund L. Burke, a railroad employee who directed the survey. The…
Burke School · 16.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Burke, a community that sprang up along the railroad back in 1882. Look for the site of the old Burke schoolhouse, which started as a one-room building and grew to serve the community for decades. It…
Burke, TX · 16.9 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Angelina County, and right here is Burke. This town owes its very existence to the railroad. Founded in 1881, it was originally named Rhodes, after the general store owners. But just a few years…
Nigton Community · 17.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Trinity County, past the site of Nigton, a freedom colony founded by African Americans after emancipation. By the 1880s, it was a thriving community with well-planned farms and a high standard of…
First Methodist Church of Groveton · 18.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Groveton, founded in 1882. Just a year later, in 1883, the Methodist congregation started here as a mission church. The original building burned down, but a new one went up in 1914, featuring…
Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Centerville (Groveton) · 18.1 mi
Centerville (Groveton, TX) placed on the 2A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Kolt Larsen (0.571 avg, 3 HR).
Lindsey Springs Logging Camp · 18.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through East Texas, passing near the site of Lindsey Springs. Back in 1899, this spot was the very first logging camp for the Southern Pine Lumber Company. By 1900, it was a bustling community of about…
Trinity County Seats · 18.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Trinity County, and right here is a marker about how this county picked its county seats. It's a story of fires and theft! It all started in 1850 when the county was organized. The first seat was…
Trinity County Courthouse · 18.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Groveton, the county seat of Trinity County. It all started in 1881 when the railroad arrived and the town was laid out. The very next year, voters picked it as their new government center. The…
Groveton · 18.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Groveton, a town born from trees and railroad ties. It all started in 1882 when the Trinity County Lumber Company set up a massive sawmill, right here, near a grove of black jack oaks. Soon after,…
Site of the Town of Sumpter · 18.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Sumpter, the original county seat of Trinity County. Land was granted here in 1850, and the town was officially laid out in 1855. Although it was incorporated in 1862, a courthouse fire…
Nettles Cemetery · 18.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Nettles Cemetery, established on family land near Livingston. Stephen Joseph Nettles was the first to be buried here in 1900, under a blackhaw tree, at his own request. The cemetery…
Flat Prairie Congregational Methodist Church · 18.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Flat Prairie Congregational Methodist Church. Organized in the late 1890s, it was officially reorganized in 1912 and held its first meetings in a local schoolhouse. The congregation…
Archie, Ernest Alvin, Jr. [Tom Archia] · 18.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, maybe not too far from Groveton, where jazz saxophonist Ernest Archie Jr. was born in 1919. He became known as Tom Archia, and his father even changed the family name to Archia to…
Hill, Ernestine [Jean Howard] · 18.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through what was once Trinity County, near Groveton, where Ernestine Hill was born around 1910. She'd later become the Hollywood actress and photographer Jean Howard. After her mother died in 1925, she…
Bell, Catherine Atkinson [Kate] · 18.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Trinity County, and right here is Groveton, the birthplace of Kate Atkinson Bell. She spent 47 years in education, starting as an elementary teacher in Houston and rising to assistant…
Groveton, TX · 18.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Groveton, a town born from the timber industry. It all started in 1881, when the Trinity County and Sabine Pass Land and Railway Company laid track and built a lumber mill. They plotted a…
West, James Marion · 18.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Trinity County, Texas, the stomping grounds of James Marion West. Born in Mississippi in 1871, his family settled near Groveton in 1880. West got his start in business here, first in a drugstore,…
Bennett Cemetery · 18.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Bennett Cemetery, the final resting place for generations of Trinity County settlers. The story goes that Georgia native Mycajah Bennett arrived in Texas around 1850. While clearing trees on this…
North Cedar Community · 18.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through what used to be North Cedar Community, a place that started with Abner Womack and his family in 1856. Imagine Benjamin and Susan Burke, sleeping in tree houses, fearing animal attacks while their…
Site of the Town of Sumpter · 18.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Sumpter, the first county seat of Trinity County. Land was granted here back in 1850, and by 1854, it was the official county seat. The town was laid out in 1855 and even incorporated in…
Glenwood Cemetery · 18.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Glenwood Cemetery, a place that's been serving the people of Groveton for over a century. This town itself sprang up fast in 1882, becoming the county seat that same year. But by 1896, residents…
George Washington Carver School · 18.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the George Washington Carver School in Groveton. Originally the Groveton Colored Community School, it operated underfunded until 1900 when a new building was erected. By 1956, it was…
Turner, Captain Isaac Newton Moreland, C. S. A. · 19.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the final resting place of Captain Isaac Newton Moreland Turner, a Confederate officer who died young. Born in Georgia in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1839</say-as>, Ike Turner moved his…
Fairview School · 19.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving near the site of the old Fairview School. Created in the late 1800s, this one-room schoolhouse served a wide rural area, with its first five-month term starting in 1898. After meeting at a local church…
McCarty Cemetery · 19.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Angelina County, past the McCarty Cemetery. Orange McCarty and his family bought this land in 1860, but the Civil War delayed their move from Mississippi. Two of their sons died fighting for the…
Hoshall · 19.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Hoshall. 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…
Scrub Creek School · 19.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Trinity County, where folks settled in after the Civil War. By 1877, the Scrub Creek community had a school, starting as a single room with one teacher for all grades. As the area grew, so did the…
Manning · 19.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through what used to be Manning, a town that boomed thanks to lumber. It all started back in 1867 when D.W.W. Manning opened a sawmill. The real growth came around 1906 with the Carter-Kelley Lumber…
Gibbs House · 19.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through the Angelina County area, near the old town of Manning. Look for this historic home, built around 1904. It was first occupied by W. M. Gibbs, a manager for the Carter-Kelly Lumber Company, and his…
The Livingston Telephone Company · 19.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Livingston, and you might be passing the site of Polk County's very first public utility: The Livingston Telephone Company. Organized way back on August 3rd, 1903, this locally owned exchange…
Greenfield Cemetery · 19.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Livingston, and right here is Greenfield Cemetery. Established in 1846 as the Livingston Colored Cemetery, this burial ground served the local African American community. As Livingston grew with…

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