Mills Flowers: Flower power fuels repurposed 70’s majorette
By HUDSON OLDJournal Publisher MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS – Opening with a halftime show featuring the twirling and dancing majorette line
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The Night the Stars Fell, Pioneer reels in Southern Belle
By Hudson OldJournal Publisher As if her birth affected the cosmos, stars poured like rain from the sky the night
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Mt. Pleasant & Titus County History Featuring Melvin Bridges
Special to the Journal Synopsis by Donna K. White from an interview with Melvin Francis Bridges in 1979 I visited
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One-time paratrooper Ricky Harris comes of age in move to Mt. Pleasant
Picture above: Parks Director Ricky Harris’s team at Oaklawn Park, where their work is the backdrop for the new Pilgrim’s
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County pulls back as Fire Chief overplays city’s hand
MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS – On his first morning off the county payroll, city Fire Chief Larry McRae said city facilities will
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Titus County during Prohibition, Personal code pitted farmer against lawman
By HUDSON OLDJournal Publisher MT PLEASANT, TEXAS—When the lawmen were the outlaws, they were hard to beat. But that’s how
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The Bandit Truck & Legendary Concepts
Bandit Truck By Allen Herald Special to the Journal Just north of Downtown Mt. Pleasant, there lies an unassuming white
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Archives provide a history of hospitality, Hotel Stephens and fine dining at the corner of West 1st and Madison
Above picture, on August 28, 1982 when Lynch Harper shot this, Billy Craig sold Fina Gas refined at Mt. Pleasant’s
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Center Point, Texas
By Hudson Old Eastern Camp County, Texas, 1948 – It wasn’t that business at Albert Hamilton’s syrup mill wasn’t what
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What makes your heart go out ? and the reason behind Harold Logan his mission in his home town
Harold Logan By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher Reprinted from the East Texas Journal April 1995 Edition Among the mysteries
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