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13 unusual facts about East Texas


Brazos Transit District

The Brazos Transit District, branded as The District, is the primary provider of mass transportation in a 16-county area of East Texas.

East Texas Baptist University

ETBU was founded as the College of Marshall in 1912, after a campaign to create a Southern Baptist college in East Texas.

Evan Siemann

The focus of his research has been investigating how local environmental factors (e.g. enemies, resources, disturbance regime and recruitment limitation) interact with post-invasion adaptation to determine the likelihood and severity of Chinese tallow tree (Sapium sebiferum) invasions into East Texas coastal prairie, mesic forests, and floodplain forests.

G. J. Kinne

In 2003 his father accepted the head coaching job at Canton High School in East Texas, a town just over an hour from Dallas, Texas.

History of Marshall, Texas

Rocker located the business in East Texas because of its abundant water and white clay deposits.

By 1860 the city was the fifth largest city in Texas, the "first metropolis of East Texas with a population of about 2,000", according to Randoph B. Campbell author of Gone to Texas, and the seat of the richest county.

Millard's Crossing Historic Village

From that one house, Thomas began restoring other structures of East Texas architecture.

Mississippian culture

The Caddoan Mississippian area, a regional variant of the Mississippian culture, covered a large territory, including what is now eastern Oklahoma, western Arkansas, northeastern Texas, and northwestern Louisiana.

Ox Emerson

Born and raised in rural East Texas, Emerson played high school football at Orange High School.

Starkid

Starkid (real name Adam Spears) was a young electronic music producer from East Texas who was most known for his single Crayons which was played by DJs such as Armin van Buuren, Markus Schulz, John Digweed and featured on Nick Warren's Global Underground: Reykjavik.

Sugartown, Louisiana

Pupils came to him from nine to ten parishes in Louisiana and from several counties in East Texas.

Walter P. Lane

After Texas had gained its independence, Lane lived in San Augustine County in East Texas and then San Antonio, where he briefly served as a Texas Ranger.

Winkler County nurse whistleblower case

By mid-2011, Arafiles had moved his practice to East Texas and was affiliated with Cozby Germany Hospital in Grand Saline.


Isaac Green Messec

In 1849, Messec joined in the California Gold Rush, leaving East Texas for California with a party of fifty men, he crossed the entire state of Texas, turned south at El Paso into Chihuahua, Mexico to avoid the Apache, crossed into Sonora by way of the Guadalupe Pass, followed the trail through the future Gadsden Purchase territory to the Gila River, and rode down the Gila to the Colorado River.

Joe D. Smith, Jr.

Smith, Sr., was originally from Geneva in Sabine County, Texas, just west of the Sabine River Geneva is considered the oldest continuously occupied town in East Texas.

Stephen F. Austin State Park

Habitat is typical East Texas riparian, upland areas are mostly pecan trees, while river bottom areas are dominated by cottonwoods and hackberry.