East Texas History

By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal   Mt. Pleasant Safeway in was built in 1958 at 1201 North

The Greyhound Bus Station was built in 1946 at 201 South Jefferson and East Alabama, where one of Guaranty Bank

Above photo is from the Lynch Harper collection, when this frame was shot, the rent for operators leasing full-service locations

From East Texas Journal, October 1993 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Greenhill, Texas – Minutes of the Presbyterian session at

A service station corner since the 40’s, by 1981 when Lynch Harper shot the top photo, an expanded Billy Craig’s

HICKORY HILL, TEXAS – What evidence we got here wouldn’t hold up in court, but it’ll do fine for a

From East Texas Journal, July 1992 A SILVER PIECE of eight was the first link amateur archeologist and Baptist minister

Epilogue          

Within a month of the September 24, 1923 murder of Ottis Ballard, one-time Titus County Sunday school teacher and lawman

By HUDSON OLDJournal Publisher MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS – Opening with a halftime show featuring the twirling and dancing majorette line