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North American area code 936 is a state of Texas telephone area code for numbers in the Nacogdoches-Huntsville area, as well as a few outer portions of the Houston metropolitan area. It was created February 19, 2000, in a code-split from area code 409. It primarily serves the Deep East Texas area. Counties served by this area code:
Numbering plan areas and area codes of Texas (tan). This is a list of area codes in the U.S. state of Texas.. The date of establishment of each area code is indicated in parentheses: [1]
Lufkin is the largest city in Angelina County, Texas, United States and is the county seat. The city is situated in Deep East Texas and is 60 mi (97 km) west of the Texas- Louisiana state line. Its population is 34,143 as of 2020. [5] Lufkin was founded in 1884 and named for Abraham P. Lufkin.
The population reached 1,165, of whom 196 were slaves, in 1850. The first county seat was Marion; successively, Jonesville became county seat in 1854, Homer in 1858, and Lufkin in 1892. Lufkin was favored by the route of the Houston, East and West Texas Railway (now the Southern Pacific), which had been built in 1882 from Houston to Shreveport.
Before St. George Place opened, Afton Oaks was zoned to Will Rogers Elementary School. [12] Will Rogers closed in May 2006, [13] and in 2006-2007 Afton Oaks was assigned to Briargrove Elementary School. [14] In 2007 Afton Oaks was rezoned to St. George Place. [15] Additionally, a number of nearby private schools provide educational alternatives.
The Lufkin Daily News was the first daily newspaper in Lufkin, founded in 1906 [2] by Charles L. Schless, who came to the city from Chicago to begin the afternoon publication. In 1909, he organized local stockholders to form a company and bought the Lufkin Tribune, a weekly in operation since 1887. Schless left Lufkin in 1912, and the company ...
Pineywoods is a Pre-K through twelfth grade charter school.Students in Angelina County, Texas and surrounding areas are open for enrollment. [2] The student teacher ratio is 1 teacher per 15.86 students, [3] and the graduation rate is 100%.
The Pines Theater is a historic movie theater located in Lufkin, Texas. Built in 1925, it was designed by architect Shirley Simons and/or W. P. Berry in Moderne style. [1] [2] [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1] The City of Lufkin purchased the theater in 2007.