East Texas History

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

From East Texas Journal, July 1992 A SILVER PIECE of eight was the first link amateur archeologist and Baptist minister

Epilogue          

Within a month of the September 24, 1923 murder of Ottis Ballard, one-time Titus County Sunday school teacher and lawman

By HUDSON OLDJournal Publisher Opening with a halftime show featuring the twirling and dancing majorette line leading the MP Going

MARSHALL – The last time Russian agents were in town – that we know of – began sometime after December

By Hudson OldJournal Publisher As if her birth affected the cosmos, stars poured like rain from the sky the night

Special to the Journal Synopsis by Donna K. White from an interview with Melvin Francis Bridges in 1979 I visited

By HUDSON OLDJournal Publisher MT PLEASANT, TEXAS—When the lawmen were the outlaws, they were hard to beat. But that’s how