Exploring Lufkin

Exploring Lufkin

 

Exploring in and around Lufkin, TX, we were impressed.  Although not an extra large town -- only about 37,000 folks -- it is a reasonably wealthy place with some beautiful homes, museums, a college, great fishing lake and surrounded by both private and national forests.  We spent only a couple of days so our analysis is reasonably superficial.

If you click on any of these photos, they will expand so that you can see them better.  But, then you may wish to hit the escape key so that you can reduce them again so you can read the captions on each one.

Very impressive murals depicting Lufkin history and this one about Cotton Square.  All done by artist Lance Hunter.

About the logging industry

Evolution of the telephone

Angelina with Spanish priest and male Indian

Angelina Information where Angelina Country got it's name

Angelina Country Center for the Arts

Angelina College and its 50-year anniversary

East Texas Museum display of Christmas trees

Pat at East Texas Museum

Plaza of the East Texas Museum

Whataburger Christmas tree

Naranjo Museum of Natural History

Triassic period in the Naranjo Museum

Pavilion on Sam Rayburn Lake

Park on Lake Sam Rayburn closed because of Government shutdown

Take the trail behind the museum to identify the trees of East Texas

Logging Railroad information

Steam engine in Diboll on a logging railroad where Pat got to toot the whistle

History Museum of Diboll has an outstanding display of old maps of Texas.  It was hard to leave.

Growth of Texas railroads

Do you think that maybe the Lufkin Chamber of Commerce should pay me for this advertising of their town?

 

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