East Texas History

Above Photo: A teacher, Pat Tomberlain insists that history matters, not as nostalgia, but as instruction. From The East Texas

PITTSBURG – Don’t hold your breath waiting for the arrival of the mob. There’s a narrow niche of Bull Durham

With construction of their new downtown location completed in 1893, Holman and Hall opened selling hardware, furniture, wagons and buggies,

Above Photo: Do Drop Inn advertisement from December 24, 1941, MP Daily Times. From The East Texas Journal, July 2026

Above Photo: A German immigrant gambled and lost his Star Bakery (at left) betting on the firstcommercial attempt to mine

Above Photo: Joni Haldeman provided research documenting Lead Belly Ledbetter’s work as a sharecropper on the lamb, living under an

Texas State Representative Tom Ramsay, above, has been ordered off a church roof by a woman once married to Governor

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

Above Photo: NUMBER PLEASE-soon you will be able to call anyone in the- greater Titus, Camp, Franklin, Morris counties area.

Charlie Jack Keeps Omaha’s History Alive at the Museum From the East Texas Journal, July 2022 By Hudson Old OMAHA,