City of Lufkin

The plaque says Lufkin was named for E. P. Lufkin, chief of a survey crew, but local histories give a different man. The City of Lufkin's history says the name honors Captain Abraham P. Lufkin, a Galveston cotton merchant, and Texas Forest Country Living adds that he was a friend of the railroad's president and never lived in the town. The city dates its railroad boom to 1882 through 1890 and its timber boom to 1890 through 1920. Businesses and families came from Homer, the county seat, until Lufkin took the seat in 1892.

What the plaque says

City of Lufkin Founded 1882. Soon became a thriving sawmill community. Named for E. P. Lufkin, chief of crew that surveyed railroad through town. Has been county seat of Angelina County since 1892. Now a regional manufacturing and commerce center. Products include paper and wood products, oilfield pumps, trailers, and foundry castings. (1970)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Caddo Mounds State Historic Site — 31 mi
  Three earthen mounds of an ancestral Caddo village and ceremonial center on the old El Camino Real, settled about A.D. 800 and still sacred to Caddo people, with a grass house and visitor center.

More markers nearby

• W.C. Trout and the Counter-Balanced Pumping Unit — 0.6 mi
• Lufkin Foundry and Machine Company — 0.6 mi
• Site of Martin Wagon Company — 0.9 mi
• KRBA-AM Radio Station — 1.0 mi