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Sweet Shop USA Sets Guinness World Record in Mt. Pleasant, Texas

Sweet Shop USA Sets Guinness World Record in Mt. Pleasant, Texas

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From The East Texas Journal, April 2017 By Hudson Old, Publisher The battle is won, the revolution complete. Surrender of...
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Hagansport, Texas History: 10,000 Years Along the Sulphur River

Hagansport, Texas History: 10,000 Years Along the Sulphur River

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From The East Texas Journal, March 2017 By Hudson Old, Publisher Consider the odds of a stone age ax winding...
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Pat Tomberlain: A Life Rooted in East Texas History

Pat Tomberlain: A Life Rooted in East Texas History

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Above Photo: A teacher, Pat Tomberlain insists that history matters, not as nostalgia, but as instruction. From The East Texas...
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Richard Clark Brought Feathered Friends and Reptiles to Mt. Pleasant Ect. Mall

Richard Clark Brought Feathered Friends and Reptiles to Mt. Pleasant Ect. Mall

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From The East Texas Journal, June 1995 MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS - If your elementary schooler's been loose downtown for any...
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1995 Mt. Pleasant Tigers Baseball: The Team That Learned to Hold the Rope

1995 Mt. Pleasant Tigers Baseball: The Team That Learned to Hold the Rope

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Above Photo: The Conroy family's been tractor mechanics for as far back as most of Titus County can recall, but...
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Earl Don Sweeney Visits Taqueria Miramar: Real Mexican Food!

Earl Don Sweeney Visits Taqueria Miramar: Real Mexican Food!

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Above Photo: The staff of Taqueria Miramar reacts as Earl Don Sweeney says in Spanish, for the first time, "Okay...
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Ghost sign appears on town’s main street

Ghost sign appears on town’s main street

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PITTSBURG – Don’t hold your breath waiting for the arrival of the mob. There’s a narrow niche of Bull Durham...
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Bull Durham shares space with Holman and Hall

Bull Durham shares space with Holman and Hall

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With construction of their new downtown location completed in 1893, Holman and Hall opened selling hardware, furniture, wagons and buggies,...
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Earl Don Sweeney Visits Vinyard’s Foods: An International Food Adventure in Mt. Pleasant

Earl Don Sweeney Visits Vinyard’s Foods: An International Food Adventure in Mt. Pleasant

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Above Photo: Vinyard’s Foods checker Barbara McNeil, from England, adds to the store’s international flavor.   From The East Texas...
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Underworld relaxed at Do Drop Inn

Underworld relaxed at Do Drop Inn

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Above Photo: Do Drop Inn advertisement from December 24, 1941, MP Daily Times. From The East Texas Journal, July 2026...
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First vision of coal riches vanished at Nodena

First vision of coal riches vanished at Nodena

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Above Photo: A German immigrant gambled and lost his Star Bakery (at left) betting on the firstcommercial attempt to mine...
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Lead Belly’s Texas Roots: The DeKalb Story of Huddie Ledbetter

Lead Belly’s Texas Roots: The DeKalb Story of Huddie Ledbetter

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Above Photo: Joni Haldeman provided research documenting Lead Belly Ledbetter’s work as a sharecropper on the lamb, living under an...
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Chris Smith: East Texas Stuntman Returns to Theme Park Action

Chris Smith: East Texas Stuntman Returns to Theme Park Action

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From The East Texas Journal, January 1998 By HUDSON OLD, Journal Publisher Chris Smith Stuntman Career Begins on East Texas...
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Tom Ramsay’s Unexpected Link to Ima Hogg Through Franklin County History

Tom Ramsay’s Unexpected Link to Ima Hogg Through Franklin County History

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Texas State Representative Tom Ramsay, above, has been ordered off a church roof by a woman once married to Governor...
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From Cooper’s Chapel to the Front Lines: The World War II Journey of Corporal James Anderson

From Cooper’s Chapel to the Front Lines: The World War II Journey of Corporal James Anderson

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Above Photo: Left to right, James, Pauline, Lloyd, Berniece Randi Anderson, About 1926. Photo from The Story of Corporal James...
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