East Texas History

Above Photo: David Hoover shows some of his turn-of-the-century mechanical phonographs. They work.   Originally published in The East Texas

Titus County prohibition history: Prohibition Politics in Titus County In the late 1930s, the fight over alcohol in Mount Pleasant

Special to the Journal Synopsis by Donna K. White from an interview with Ben Carr 1979. I had two visits

Above Photo: Robert Mitchell and Roosevelt Fleming are in-laws who have lived together since Robert’s daughter married Rose 66 years

Above Photo: Since buying a tract of Franklin County land with an old farmhouse, David Weatherbie’s research has introduced him

Above photo, at left is new development that’s surged during the administration of Mayor Tracy Craig in the old “Sunrise”

From The East Texas Journal, July 2022 By HUDSON OLD, Publisher OMAHA, TEXAS – The two strangers who came in

Above photo: Dorothy Doss stands at the door of a home the American Red Cross built for her family after

Above photo, in the 1930’s, the Gladewater Baptist Church baptized at “the Cotton Gin Pool” near Crooks Store. From The

From The East Texas Journal, March 2022 By Hudson Old, Publisher Ed’s note: The following story of the reign and