Details for Calder (Cotton) Square
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5005006984
Data
| Marker Number | 6984 |
| Atlas Number | 5005006984 |
| Marker Title | Calder (Cotton) Square |
| Index Entry | Calder Square (Cotton) |
| Address | |
| City | Lufkin |
| County | Angelina |
| UTM Zone | |
| UTM Easting | |
| UTM Northing | |
| Subject Codes | parks |
| Marker Year | 1972 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | Cotton Square at Lufkin Avenue |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 20" x 20" |
| 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. |