Archived CCC photo pegs location of Depression-era work camp on Edwards
Reprinted from the East Texas Journal May 2019 Edition. Ed’s note: Sam Ferguson researched and compiled 1930’s news records for
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East Texas History
Salvage milks the most from the work of a forgotten builder
Reprinted from the East Texas Journal May 2020 Edition BRIDGES CHAPEL, TEXAS — When Lisa Garrison-Toland was a girl, “Grandma”
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Flora & fauna on Daphne Prairie draw diverse life forms to Franklin County
Reprinted from the East Texas Journal June 2016 Edition By HUDSON OLD East Texas Journal DAPHNE PRAIRIE – An artist,
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Cookville business boom fueled five newspapers
Reprinted from the East Texas Journal January 2019 Edition. COOKVILLE, TEXAS – With World War I in full swing, Earl
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Was Titus County-born Mac Wallace the second gunman in the JFK assassination?
Reprinted from the May 2012 East Texas Journal By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher PITTSBURG, TEXAS– Her following of threads of
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Daingerfield resident changed course of American history in 1964 election
Reprinted from the East Texas Journal July 2016 Edition. MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS – In the November 25, 1964 Mt. Pleasant
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Steel company executive turns tide to LBJ at the unconventional Democratic convention of ’64
Reprinted from the East Texas Journal June 2013 Edition. Ed’s note: An ex-Marine who got into Texas politics following World
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Moonshine provided escape from poverty for Titus County whisky runner on the Back Roads to Dallas
Article reprinted from the East Texas Journal January, 2016 Edition. Back Roads to Dallas is now at the Mt. Pleasant
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Theories differ on strange geology at Jakes Creek
From the East Texas Journal August 2011 MONTICELLO, TEXAS – The thing had occupied his mind again, so Oscar Hill
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Local homemakers develop world-class, creekside ceramics
Before Columbus, cutting edge Caddo homemakers here perfected ceramic dinnerware while the average European was still eating off wooden slabs.
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