Pinkston Cemetery

Tyler, TX

Antioch Baptist Church was established in 1851 in the rural Sand Flat community, when members first gathered in homes and the local schoolhouse before raising their own sanctuary in 1857. Served only by part-time pastors, the faithful kept Sunday School and youth meetings going even when no preacher could come. New buildings in 1939 and 1953 marked the congregation's endurance across a century of rural life.

Longview, TX

This East Texas congregation grew out of Sunday School classes that Pine Tree Cumberland Presbyterian Church began holding in the Spring Hill Schoolhouse in the late 1880s. Organized in the 1890s under its first resident pastor, the church took its name from Elmira Castleberry, matriarch of a prominent pioneer family whose sons served as founding elders and donated land and materials for a combined school and church building in 1897-98. The congregation remained active in community and missionary work for generations.

Wood County, TX

The community of Fouke took root in southeastern Wood County, Texas, in the years just after the Civil War, first known simply as "Center" and said to date to about 1866. As settlers gathered in the early 1870s, they raised a log building that did double and triple duty as church, school, and meeting place — a common pattern on the post-war Texas frontier, where one structure often anchored a whole rural settlement. Such communities grew up along the farms and lakes of East Texas as families sought land and a fresh start during Reconstruction.

Tyler, TX

Houston architect Eugene T. Heiner and builder Henry Kane erected this Italianate structure in 1880–81 as Smith County's fourth jail, its stuccoed walls scored to imitate cut stone and dressed with elaborate window molds and classical beltcourses. A second story added in 1894 doubled its cell space. After a new jail replaced it in 1916, the building found a second life as the Lewis Hotel until 1986.