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Lufkin was founded in 1884 and named for Abraham P. Lufkin. It originally served as a stop on the Houston, East and West Texas Railway. It was officially incorporated on October 15, 1890. Lufkin continued to serve as a stop on the railroad until 1890.
Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base. Coordinates: 29°36′26″N 095°09′32″W. Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base. Houston, Texas in the United States of America. The entrance to Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in 2012, with the Space Shuttle Endeavour arriving in the background. Ellington.
The history of shopping malls in Texas began with the oldest shopping center in the United States, Highland Park Village, which opened in 1931 in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. The latter and Greater Houston area are both home to numerous regional shopping malls and shopping centers located in various areas of the city.
Lovelady is located in southern Houston County at (31.128422, –95.445035). [6] Texas State Highway 19 runs through the center of town as Commerce Street, leading north 14 miles (23 km) to Crockett, the county seat, and south the same distance to Trinity.
Atkinson Candy Company is a private company [1] founded in 1932 by B.E. Atkinson, Sr., and his wife, Mabel C. Atkinson. [2] It started when Basil E. Atkinson made two-day treks to Houston to purchase candy and tobacco, then he would sell it to mom-and-pop shops on the return trip. [3]
The Ellen Trout Zoo is a small zoo founded by Walter Trout in 1967 and located in Lufkin, Texas, United States.The zoo gets about 150,000 visitors a year. It is currently owned and operated by the City of Lufkin, with Friends of Ellen Trout Zoo (F.O.E.T.Z.) (a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization) supporting it with funding for major expansion and renovation projects in the Zoo's master plan.
Rec. ← SH 102. → SH 104. State Highway 103 ( SH 103) is a state highway that runs through east Texas from an intersection with SH 7 near the Neches River through Lufkin to an intersection with SH 21 near the Louisiana state line. The route was originally designated in 1926.
Brookshire Brothers, is an employee-owned American supermarket chain headquartered in Lufkin, Texas, founded in 1921 by brothers Austin and Tom Brookshire. [1] Brookshire Brothers is a private corporation that is wholly owned by employees. Brookshire Brothers operates stores in two Southern United States; Texas and Louisiana. [2]