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This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wood County, Texas. There are one district and nine individual properties listed on the National Register in the county. Two individually listed properties are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks while the district contains more.
Pages in category "Unincorporated communities in Wood County, Texas" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Oak Grove is an unincorporated community in Wood County, located in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas , [ citation needed ] Oak Grove had a population of 74 in 2000. Geography
According to Oscar F. Stair's grandson, Fred, he was born in 1867 and his family still owns most of the community, which consists mostly of Mesquite trees. [3] On August 28, 2008, a natural gas pipeline exploded and caught on fire in Stairtown. [4] The community sustained some damage from a low-end EF2 tornado on March 21, 2022. [5]
Alfred Padon was editor and publisher of the Wood County Democrat when it was founded in 1893 in Quitman, Texas with financial support from local area merchants. [4] The newspaper's original site included a Vaughan Ideal hand-operated presses. The entire operation was reported to have cost around US$800 (equivalent to $27,129 in 2023) to start ...
Wood County voted for secession by a 70% majority. The two delegates to the Secession Convention, though, both opposed secession. [3] The first soldiers raised for the Confederacy in Wood County were Company A, 10th Texas Cavalry Regiment. [8] A training ground called Camp Flournoy was established east of Quitman.
As of 1999 Texas was the tenth largest timber producing state in the nation. [3] The primary wood product is the Southern yellow pine largely supplying the housing sector in the state. [3] Cities like Nacogdoches, Lufkin, Beaumont, and Marshall still have large lumber firms that make up a substantial portion of their economies.
Pages in category "Renaissance Revival architecture in Texas" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .