Calder (Cotton) Square
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member jackrock
N 31° 20.351 W 094° 43.776
15R E 335457 N 3468484
Located in downtown Lufkin in Cotton Square in front of the Lufkin ISD Administrative building.
Waymark Code: WM876M
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/12/2010
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member QuesterMark
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There is plenty of nearby parking. This building was previously the library and is on the site of the former site of an old railroad depot which exploded in 1913.
Marker Number: 6984

Marker Text:
City's hub, 1882- early 1900s, teeming with cotton buying, horse trades, band concerts, political rallies, switching railroad trains. Site of fire station, standpipe, 1933 memorial library named for lumberman J. H. Kurth (1857 - 1930), Square was renamed 1961 for Kurth family friend, Louis Calder (1879 - 1963) of New York. (1972)
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