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09/19/2025

Titus County namesake statesman Andrew Jackson Titus surfaces on Red River near DeKalb, Texas. Read all about it by clicking on the photo.

Titus County's Andrew Jackson Titus surfaced amid news clippings and Republic of Texas records, a paper trail into East Texas at the Williams House Museum.

09/16/2025

Photo of legendary elephant crossing the Red River survives forensic analysis. Read all about it by clicking on the photo.

Photograph is said to show an elephant carrying a young George Holt across the Red River into Texas in the fall of 1918

09/12/2025

Fabled Elder Family Show elephant turns up in archives. Read all about it by clicking on the photo.

Coming on a hundred years since a vaudeville-styled show with a circus tent flair arrived here, the legend of the vanishing elephant remains a mystery.

09/02/2025

Show girls sweeten Sugar Hill, Texas. A swath of the stream of Blalocks either living in or coming from Titus County can be tracked back to the eight children of A.T. “Uncle Buck” Blalock, seven of whom were sons. Read all about it by clicking the photo.

A swath of the stream of Blalocks either living in or coming from Titus County can be tracked back to the eight children of A.T. “Uncle Buck” Blalock, seven of whom were sons.

08/29/2025

Happy Hogs and Sugar Cane Sweeten Hess Family's Place. Read all about the Hess family history by clicking on the photo.

H.L. Hess II, born in 1918 in the same house his mother was born in 30 years earlier, Mr. Hess remembered as many as 20 tenant families working 2,500 acres.

08/26/2025

Last Cowboy on the Bankhead Highway. Dale Truitt put a 4-day antique car tour that put the century-old Bankhead Highway known as “The Broadway of America” in the news. Read all about it by clicking on the photo.

Dale Truitt put a 4-day antique car tour that put the century-old Bankhead Highway known as “The Broadway of America” in the news.

08/22/2025

JFK conspiracy theories rise from mixed blood of Camp, Red River and Titus Counties. The man claimed by Barr McClellan to be the second gunman in the Kennedy assassination died in a one-car accident January 7, 1971, on old U.S. 271. Read all about it by clicking on the photo.

The man claimed by Barr McClellan to be the second gunman in the JFK assassination died in a one-car accident January 7, 1971, on old U.S. 271.

08/20/2025

War brought Longhorn Army Ammunitions Plant to East Texas. Read all about it by clicking on the photo.

Production at Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant began October 6, 1942. Thirteen days later the first flake of TNT was produced.

08/15/2025

War-Time plant that ‘changed the world’ idled at Lone Star Steel. Read all about it by clicking on the photo.

First time since operations at Lone Star Steel began in of 1948, no product rolls out the gates and there’s no production scheduled for the future.

08/08/2025

Secret Cold War military lab embedded at steel plant. Click on the photo to read all about “The Daingerfield Project,” evolving military technology during the Cold War arms race streamed from an experimental Navy facility opening in Lone Star in 1945.

“The Daingerfield Project,” evolving military technology during the Cold War arms race streamed from an experimental Navy facility here.

08/06/2025

Gunfight at Naples saloon. Following a knife fight in a gambling room above a Naples saloon, Joe Thomas shot and killed former Sheriff John High. Read all about it by clicking on the photo.

Following a knife fight in a gambling room above a Naples saloon, Joe Thomas shot and killed former Sheriff John High.

07/25/2025

Frontier history spans 180 years on Daphne Prairie. Read all about it by clicking on the photo. Past residents of Daphne Prairie include the families named Hunnicutt, Hanks, Johnson, Belcher and the Black family.

180 years of past residents of Daphne Prairie include the families named Hunnicutt, Hanks, Johnson, Belcher and the Black family.

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