Pine Bough 2011 Now Available
Posted: January 30, 2012
The December 2011 issue of the Pine Bough Magazine was mailed to our subscribers today. The 44-page issue features the history of Fort Teran, an 1831 Mexican outpost on the Neches River, in Tyler County, and Helen Darden's memories of growing up in the 1920s and 1930s in the Boykin Settlement...

New Oral Histories, Digital Resources, Finding Guides, and History Pin Photographs
Posted: January 4, 2012
The History Center added new content to the website over November and December 2011. Three oral history interviews of Reverend Bettie Kennedy and one of Sellestine Hunt, conducted by R. L. Kuykendall, document Lufkin's African American community. Topics covered include their life experiences from...

Holiday Hours
Posted: December 19, 2011
In observance of the Christmas and New Year holidays, we will be closed December 22 through 26 and December 30 through January 2. We wish everyone a Joyful Christmas and Happy New...

New Digital Materials Added in November
Posted: November 7, 2011
The History Center has digitized the new material relating to the Texas South-Eastern Railroad Company and Gayle Cruthirds World War II collection. Records from the TSE include accident files, correspondence relating to the stock and abandonment of the Lufkin, Hemphill and Gulf Railway Company,...

New Collections Open for Research
Posted: October 4, 2011
The Texas South-Eastern Railroad Company Photographs and Records Collection, the Durham Family Collection, and the Temple Lumber Company Retail Scrapbooks have been processed and are available to researchers. The TSE collection documents the railroads early history and includes papers from 1996,...