East Texas History

By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Burnet Wadel, born in 1863 at Summit, Miss., lived in Mt. Pleasant

Above photo, Cattleman Fred Barker set up his morning headquarters at Linda Stinson’s Dairy Bar in Mt. Vernon. From East

By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Hogue Pottery – The last Hogue Pottery was built in Mt. Pleasant

From East Texas Journal, November 1993 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Pittsburg, Texas – #819 Cotton Belt Star – It

By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal   Mt. Pleasant Safeway in was built in 1958 at 1201 North

The Greyhound Bus Station was built in 1946 at 201 South Jefferson and East Alabama, where one of Guaranty Bank

Above photo is from the Lynch Harper collection, when this frame was shot, the rent for operators leasing full-service locations

From East Texas Journal, October 1993 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Greenhill, Texas – Minutes of the Presbyterian session at

A service station corner since the 40’s, by 1981 when Lynch Harper shot the top photo, an expanded Billy Craig’s

HICKORY HILL – What evidence we got here wouldn’t hold up in court, but it’ll do fine for a story