Ghost sign appears on town’s main street
PITTSBURG – Don’t hold your breath waiting for the arrival of the mob. There’s a narrow niche of Bull Durham
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Bull Durham shares space with Holman and Hall
With construction of their new downtown location completed in 1893, Holman and Hall opened selling hardware, furniture, wagons and buggies,
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Earl Don Sweeney Visits Vinyard’s Foods: An International Food Adventure in Mt. Pleasant
Above Photo: Vinyard’s Foods checker Barbara McNeil, from England, adds to the store’s international flavor. From The East Texas
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Underworld relaxed at Do Drop Inn
Above Photo: Do Drop Inn advertisement from December 24, 1941, MP Daily Times. From The East Texas Journal, July 2026
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First vision of coal riches vanished at Nodena
Above Photo: A German immigrant gambled and lost his Star Bakery (at left) betting on the firstcommercial attempt to mine
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Lead Belly’s Texas Roots: The DeKalb Story of Huddie Ledbetter
Above Photo: Joni Haldeman provided research documenting Lead Belly Ledbetter’s work as a sharecropper on the lamb, living under an
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Chris Smith: East Texas Stuntman Returns to Theme Park Action
From The East Texas Journal, January 1998 By HUDSON OLD, Journal Publisher Chris Smith Stuntman Career Begins on East Texas
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Tom Ramsay’s Unexpected Link to Ima Hogg Through Franklin County History
Texas State Representative Tom Ramsay, above, has been ordered off a church roof by a woman once married to Governor
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From Cooper’s Chapel to the Front Lines: The World War II Journey of Corporal James Anderson
Above Photo: Left to right, James, Pauline, Lloyd, Berniece Randi Anderson, About 1926. Photo from The Story of Corporal James
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Gidget the Feral Hog Finds a Home in Mt. Pleasant
Above Photo: Tonya Freeman with Gidget, a feral hog she’s raising on a baby’s bottle. January 1998 ETJ Story Revised
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