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Updated: Nov. 12, 2022 at 11:16 AM CST
|By Mark Scirto
As you can imagine, back in the 1800s, East Texas looked very different, but you can take a trip back in time at the Dewberry Plantation.
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Updated: Oct. 8, 2022 at 10:35 AM CDT
|By Mark Scirto
The historic home is over 100 years old.
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Updated: Oct. 1, 2022 at 10:42 AM CDT
|By Mark Scirto
The Halfway Inn, also known as the Flournoy-Granberry House, was built around 1840 by Samuel Flournoy and served as the post office for a 15-mile radius.
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Updated: Sep. 24, 2022 at 11:35 AM CDT
|By Mark Scirto
The Hazel Tilton Park downtown was selected as home for the new marker.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2022 at 10:06 AM CDT
|By Mark Scirto
The First Baptist Church of Lufkin is close to downtown and recently got a facelift.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 3:42 PM CDT
|By Mark Scirto
The City of Crockett's connection to the famed frontiersman goes beyond just a name.
Updated: May. 7, 2022 at 12:55 PM CDT
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
The community of Burke was established in 1882. A one-room structure was built on one acre as a school.
Updated: Apr. 30, 2022 at 11:23 AM CDT
|By Mark Scirto
Ima Hogg was recognized nationally and had received many accolades for her service to Texas. She died in 1975 in London and was buried in Austin.
Updated: Apr. 2, 2022 at 12:46 PM CDT
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
It’s been 127 years since the Dalton Gang rode into Longview to rob a bank. It’s reenacted every year.
Updated: Mar. 26, 2022 at 1:56 PM CDT
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
You may not know this, but East Texas is home to the site that was the largest Confederate prisoner of war camp west of the Mississippi.
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Updated: Mar. 12, 2022 at 1:32 PM CST
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
This Friday marks 85 years since a gas explosion killed hundreds at the New London school. It’s our topic of Mark in Texas History with Mark Scirto.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2022 at 1:08 PM CST
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
Reverend Cornelius Moses Butler and the East Texas Baptist Association founded East Texas Baptist Academy in 1905.
Updated: Feb. 12, 2022 at 6:10 PM CST
|By Mark Scirto
The Mineola Black Spiders quickly earned a reputation as one of the fastest teams on the field.
Updated: Feb. 5, 2022 at 1:58 PM CST
|By Mark Scirto
Descendants of the men killed 110 years ago, regularly converge to honor their memory and death.
Updated: Jan. 29, 2022 at 2:51 PM CST
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
Jonathan Anderson could be considered a founding father for one East Texas city.
Updated: Jan. 22, 2022 at 1:39 PM CST
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
Like many cities in East Texas, Mineola has the rail industry to thank for its progress to what it is today.
Updated: Jan. 15, 2022 at 6:21 PM CST
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
This week, we feature a historical marker that is, well, misplaced. Canton still sits on the wrong site due to a survey mistake in the 1850s.
Updated: Jan. 8, 2022 at 1:42 PM CST
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
In Polk County, you can see an early contribution to the Deep East Texas timber industry.
Updated: Jan. 1, 2022 at 6:49 PM CST
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
All that is left of what was once a small community is just a historical marker and a creek.
Updated: Dec. 11, 2021 at 10:18 PM CST
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
A regular staple for our weekly Mark in Texas History is East Texas courthouses. Today, we feature the Cherokee County Courthouse.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2021 at 2:32 PM CST
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
Just outside Carthage, you’ll find the headstone for Jim Reeves, a world-famous country singer. It is also where you’ll find a historical marker commemorating his life. It’s the subject of this week’s Mark in Texas History.
Updated: Nov. 20, 2021 at 2:07 PM CST
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
The Goodman home in Tyler was originally built in 1859.
Updated: Nov. 13, 2021 at 5:29 PM CST
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
Though it’s shut down, the Lufkin paper mill is still prominent today just east of the city limits. It’s the subject of this week’s Mark in Texas History by Mark Scirto.
Updated: Nov. 6, 2021 at 7:21 PM CDT
|By Mark Scirto
A new historical marker honors the veterans of the War of 1812, many of whom made Nacogdoches their home after the war. It has a fitting location.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2021 at 1:08 PM CDT
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff and Mark Scirto
The Capitol Hotel is no longer standing in Marshall but its rich history dates from 1857 to 1971.
Updated: Oct. 9, 2021 at 12:31 PM CDT
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
The Roseland Plantation Home has had its share of rumors and urban legends but it standing strong.
Updated: Sep. 26, 2021 at 12:14 PM CDT
|By Mark Scirto
The Woman’s Building in Tyler is standing as tall and beautiful today as it did over 90 years ago. The Woman’s Building Association was chartered in 1928 to direct the construction of this facility.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2021 at 12:19 PM CDT
|By Mark Scirto and KLTV Digital Media Staff
Buck Kilgore donated a 200-foot railroad right-of-way in 1871. Kilgore recognized the benefits which come from a railroad and built a new home near the station and many followed suit.
Updated: Sep. 4, 2021 at 11:21 AM CDT
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
The subject of this week’s Mark in Texas History by Mark Scirto is the City of Hallsville.
Updated: Aug. 21, 2021 at 6:22 PM CDT
|By Mark Scirto
Near the city of Jefferson is a piece of Civil War history: The Jefferson Ordnance Magazine.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2021 at 2:29 PM CDT
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
This small Gregg County town has gone through many names since its establishment before the Civil War. But today, her name is Liberty and is the subject of this week’s Mark in Texas History.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2021 at 4:23 PM CDT
|By Mark Scirto
Mark Scirto spotlights the Frankston Railroad Depot in this week's Mark In Texas History.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2021 at 11:48 AM CDT
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
The City of Tyler may not be what it is today without one major figure. Rudolph Bergfeld is the subject of this week’s Mark in Texas History with Mark Scirto.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2021 at 12:12 PM CDT
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
The courthouse underwent a major restoration in 1986 and was dedicated with a historical marker in 1988.
Updated: Jul. 18, 2021 at 1:48 PM CDT
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
The Battle of the Neches was the main engagement of the Cherokee War.
Updated: Jul. 3, 2021 at 5:31 PM CDT
|By Mark Scirto
Burell Cannon was a Baptist minister and inventor. In 1902, Cannon led some investors in Pittsburg to create the Ezekiel Airship. It was modeled after a description in the Biblical book of Ezekiel.
Updated: Jun. 26, 2021 at 2:03 PM CDT
|By Mark Scirto
In this weeks’ Mark in Texas History, Mark Scirto tells us about the oldest standing house in Kilgore.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2021 at 7:17 PM CDT
|By Mark Scirto
In this week’s Mark in Texas History, we take a look at one of the most historical counties in the state.
Updated: Jun. 5, 2021 at 4:57 PM CDT
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
Did you know the namesake of Pike’s Peak once came through East Texas? It’s the subject of this week’s Mark in Texas History.
Updated: May. 29, 2021 at 4:56 PM CDT
|By Mark Scirto
East Texas Baptist University is still going strong today and is the subject of this week’s Mark in Texas History.
Updated: May. 22, 2021 at 4:09 PM CDT
|By Mark Scirto
Polk County Courthouse awaits a $10 million historical renovation.
Updated: May. 8, 2021 at 1:31 PM CDT
|By Mark Scirto
W.E. Mayes became a successful businessman in banking, real estate, construction and retail. By 1893, he owned this structure.
Updated: Apr. 10, 2021 at 7:27 PM CDT
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff and Mark Scirto
It was in the 1930s when the greatest concentration of oil derricks in the world was right here in East Texas. It’s the subject of this week’s Mark in Texas History by Mark Scirto.
Updated: Apr. 9, 2021 at 3:57 AM CDT
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff and Mark Scirto
Two landmarks stand in the middle of Kilgore, signifying the oil boom of the 1930s.
Updated: Apr. 3, 2021 at 12:39 PM CDT
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff and Mark Scirto
The bakery was launched after Eilenberger took his mother’s fruitcake recipe, started making fruitcakes and pastries and a business in town wanted to mail cakes to customers and friends.
Updated: Mar. 27, 2021 at 3:00 PM CDT
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff and Mark Scirto
Since photos back then were black and white, finding the correct old paint colors was no easy feat. The Texas Historical Commission sent an expert to help.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2021 at 3:51 PM CST
|By Mark Scirto
The Abernathy House is a part of Pittsburg history and still available for special event use.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2021 at 2:24 PM CST
|By Mark Scirto and KLTV Digital Media Staff
This week, Mark Scirto tells us about a church which started a segregated school in Anderson County.
Updated: Feb. 6, 2021 at 1:31 PM CST
|By KLTV Digital Media Staff
Lufkin's First United Methodist Church grew from out of a resident's home and stands tall 150 years later.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2021 at 2:58 PM CST
|By KTRE Digital Media Staff and Mark Scirto
“It was like a sugar cube that has been saturated with water. It still looks good and holds its shape, but if you touch it, it crumbles.”