Historic Nacogdoches, Texas: Lone Star hospitality

By Elspeth Callender
October 29 2016 - 12:15am
Roland Jones House, in the Downtown Historic District of Nacogdoches.
Roland Jones House, in the Downtown Historic District of Nacogdoches.
Nacogdoches poet Karle Wilson Baker.
Nacogdoches poet Karle Wilson Baker.
A house in the Millard's Crossing Historic Village displays an antique doll in a sitting room.
A house in the Millard's Crossing Historic Village displays an antique doll in a sitting room.
Lone Star history.
Lone Star history.

Behind the pine curtain, beneath the Southern hospitality blanket and a stone's throw from the Louisiana border is, arguably, the oldest town in Texas. Brick streets and historic architecture survive from a time when criminals could evade the eyes of the law just by slipping into the shadows of the Big Thicket of East Texas. While six flags have flown over the rebellious Lone Star State, the town of Nacogdoches has seen nine.

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