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Wadel-Connally Hardware Company

Wadel-Connally Hardware Company

East Texas History Featured
By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Burnet Wadel, born in 1863 at Summit, Miss., lived in Mt. Pleasant...
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Cattleman recalled German POW camp

Cattleman recalled German POW camp

East Texas History Featured
Above photo, Cattleman Fred Barker set up his morning headquarters at Linda Stinson's Dairy Bar in Mt. Vernon. From East...
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Hogue Pottery

Hogue Pottery

East Texas History Featured
By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Hogue Pottery – The last Hogue Pottery was built in Mt. Pleasant...
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There’s No Business, Like Show Business

There’s No Business, Like Show Business

Entertainment Featured
From East Texas Journal, July 2023 Hollywood veteran Jack Canson skews heavily Silver Fox these days. It’s a role he’s...
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Town gears up for arrival of the #819 Cotton Belt Star

Town gears up for arrival of the #819 Cotton Belt Star

East Texas History Featured
From East Texas Journal, November 1993 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Pittsburg, Texas - #819 Cotton Belt Star - It...
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Safeway

Safeway

East Texas History Featured
By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal   Mt. Pleasant Safeway in was built in 1958 at 1201 North...
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Miss Dorothy’s School of Music was Gray Rock’s last enterprise

Miss Dorothy’s School of Music was Gray Rock’s last enterprise

Business Featured
Above photo, Miss Dorothy Long's pooch, Annie could sing. Anybody who spent time at Miss Dorothy's School of music learned...
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Greyhound Bus Station

Greyhound Bus Station

East Texas History Featured
The Greyhound Bus Station was built in 1946 at 201 South Jefferson and East Alabama, where one of Guaranty Bank...
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October 1993: Fall roundup gets foggy start

October 1993: Fall roundup gets foggy start

Business Featured
By Hudson Old, Journal publisher By just after noon on the first day of the fall roundup, the boss and...
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Jackson Oil Fina Station

Jackson Oil Fina Station

East Texas History Featured
Above photo is from the Lynch Harper collection, when this frame was shot, the rent for operators leasing full-service locations...
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History carved in stone at Greenhill Graveyard

History carved in stone at Greenhill Graveyard

East Texas History Featured
From East Texas Journal, October 1993 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Greenhill, Texas - Minutes of the Presbyterian session at...
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Billy Craig Service Center

Billy Craig Service Center

East Texas History Featured
A service station corner since the 40’s, by 1981 when Lynch Harper shot the top photo, an expanded Billy Craig’s...
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Hear-say evidence nails Civil War prisoner’s descendant

Hear-say evidence nails Civil War prisoner’s descendant

East Texas History Featured
HICKORY HILL – What evidence we got here wouldn't hold up in court, but it'll do fine for a story...
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Joe Dalby Motors

Joe Dalby Motors

Featured Mount Pleasant
Joe Dalby Motors was built in 1946 at 601 West 16th Street and Mulberry Street, where Huey's Coffee is now....
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Local heritage displayed at former depot

Local heritage displayed at former depot

Featured Pittsburg
From East Texas Journal, September 1992 By Vernon C. Holcomb, Special to the Journal Pittsburg, Texas – The Lonesome wail...
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