Deweyville

Deweyville's mill was the scene of a strike in 1910. The Handbook of Texas says the Brotherhood of Timber Workers led a two-month strike against the Sabine Tram Company, which owned the general store, hotel, community house and housing, and that it failed. The union, organized that year by A. L. Emerson and Jay Smith, admitted workers of all races, and about half its members were Black. A fire destroyed the sawmill in 1943, and the Sabine and Neches Valley line was abandoned soon after.

What the plaque says

Deweyville Original site, called "Possum Bluff," was purchased with a team of oxen by Pierre Lavine from Bill Morrison, 1886. Town was renamed for Admiral George Dewey during Spanish-American War. Leading industry, sawmill, was built by Sabine Tram Co., 1897; and was owned 1919-1943 by Peavy-Moore Lumber Co.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center — 14 mi
  More than 250 acres on Adams Bayou, begun by H. J. Lutcher Stark in 1937, with garden rooms, a cypress-tupelo swamp, a heronry blind and free pontoon tours in season.
• Stark Museum of Art — 14 mi
  A white-marble museum in Orange built by the Stark Foundation and opened in 1978, holding Western art, American Indian art, Audubon's Birds of America and Steuben glass, free to enter.
• Village Creek State Park — 25 mi
  A 2,466-acre state park on one of the few free-flowing creeks in Texas, with a launch for the Village Creek Paddling Trail, boat rentals and sandy-upland trails in the Big Thicket.
• McFaddin-Ward House — 26 mi
  A Beaux-Arts Colonial Revival mansion finished in 1906 and lived in by one family for 75 years, with free guided tours of three furnished floors, the carriage house and gardens.

More markers nearby

• Mauriceville — 10 mi
• Site of World War II P. O. W. Camp — 13 mi
• St. Therese Catholic Church — 14 mi
• Black Education in Orange County — 14 mi