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. |