Pinetucky

After the Pinetucky name gave way to Magnolia Springs when the post office opened in 1850, the Handbook of Texas says Texas Tram and Lumber Company moved its logging camp to the springs in 1882 and floated logs down the Neches from Wright's landing, until the camp moved to Kirbyville in 1894. Horn Lumber Company ran a sawmill there from 1933 to 1946, and the cotton gin stopped in 1935. The entry puts the community's high at about 150 people and five businesses in 1946, with about 80 residents in 1950.

What the plaque says

Pinetucky Name originally applied to widely scattered settlement astride Wiess Bluff-Jasper Road. First settlers, Alexander and Sherod Wright, came into area about 1824. Magnolia Springs Post Office opened at this site in 1850; within a few years the community had a store, church, and grist mill on Wright's (later Mill) Creek; a mill and tannery were on nearby Tanyard Branch. Texas Tram & Lumber Co. had extensive logging operation in area in 1880s-90s. Decline began with arrival of the railroad in Kirbyville, 1895. Post office was moved to present site in 1905. (1973)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Martin Dies, Jr. State Park — 14 mi
  A 705-acre state park on Steinhagen Reservoir at the meeting of the Neches and Angelina rivers, with about 14 miles of paddling trails through sloughs and more than 200 campsites.
• Big Thicket National Preserve — 28 mi
  Start at the Kountze visitor center, where rangers sort the preserve's scattered units for you, and learn why Congress made this 1974 string of pearls the country's first national preserve.

More markers nearby

• Ivory Joe Hunter — 0.9 mi
• Early Kirbyville Schools — 8.9 mi
• Kirbyville, Town of, Site of Town Lot Auction — 9.2 mi
• Stephen Williams — 11 mi