East Texas History

Above photo, the secret Cold War military lab at Lone Star was the first to use a side door that

By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Naples, Texas – It was December 3,1898, sometime just after dark. The saloons along Front

Daphne Prairie From the East Texas Journal, August 1994 In 1767, a French explorer who traveled the Cherokee Trace from

From East Texas Journal, April 1996 By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher Conventional wisdom is that the first child born in

July 2, on a hot afternoon in 1934 the newspapers said the cops were hot on heels of the robbers

From East Texas Journal, June 1994 By Jean Pamplin   MT. VERNON, TEXAS – 1875, a battle waged in newly

Robert Raymond (Pat) Gaggers From East Texas Journal / Lynch Harper Files I was born where the North Jefferson church

The Pittsburg Gazette reported that 42-year-old P.D. Thornton “is said to have an even chance for recovery” after one man

WILL J, TAYLOR, who built the cotton gin in Monticello in 1915, stands to the right of the doorway in

Special to the journal Synopsis by Etta Ray Case from an interview with Oscar Leonodis Taylor in 1979   Editor’s