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Black plaque № 19294

Lufkin, TX, United States

Calder (Cotton) Square. 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. #6984

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