The economic development of Angelina County

Angelina County has passed through many stages in its transition from a frontier county, where lawlessness prevailed, to a peaceful land of smokestacks and factory whistles. Most of the sawmill towns which flourished thirty or forty years ago have disappeared, leaving little or no trace of their existence. Many of these have been forgotten even by people who should remember them. Because these early mills paved the way for the present industrialization in Angelina County, some record should be made in order to remind future generations of their debt to the past. In this paper I have endeavored to trace the economic development of the county from the days when stock raising and farming were the chief industries to the present time, when manufactured products from Angelina County are shipped all over the world. To secure the data used in this thesis I have searched books, county records, and newspaper files, and I have interviewed many peopleHistor