Calder (Cotton) Square
City's hub, 1882- early 1900s, teeming with cotton buying, horse trades, band concerts, political rallies, switching railroad trains. Site of fire station, standpipe, 1933 memorial library named for lumberman J. H. Kurth (1857 - 1930), Square was renamed 1961 for Kurth family friend, Louis Calder (1879 - 1963) of New York.
31.3392° N, 94.7296° W
Where to Find It
Cotton Square at Lufkin Avenue
Nearby Markers
- <0.1 mi E Site of Rehearsal Hall for The Hoo Hoo Band Lufkin
- <0.1 mi E Kerr's Inc. Lufkin
- <0.1 mi SW Depot Explosion and Mystery Lufkin
- <0.1 mi SW KRBA-AM Radio Station Lufkin
- 0.1 mi W Lufkin Daily News Lufkin
- 0.1 mi NE Lufkin Telephone Exchange Lufkin