At 103 years old, Troop 201 is one of the two oldest Boy Scout troops — if not the oldest — in the state. Its Scout Hut, as the cabin at Teague Park is known, has been in existence for nearly 80 years and serves a boys’ troop, a girls’ troop and a co-ed high-adventure troop.
May 23, 1894: Outlaw Bill Dalton and gang members Jim Wallace, Jim Nite and Judd Nite rode into Longview and robbed the First National Bank. The gunfight that followed at Fredonia and Bank streets was one of the Old West’s biggest, with 200 shots fired…
May 22, 1961: It was R.G. LeTourneau Appreciation Day as the industrialist returned from New York, where he received the International Progress Award from the American Society of Tool and Manufacturing Engineers. “The great honor which you have receive…
May 21, 1991: In its first major action, the newly organized County Organized Drug Enforcement Unit arrested more than 45 suspects in Gregg, Upshur and Smith counties on charges of delivering cocaine. The busts were made by 25 officers of the Gregg Cou…
The Catholic Parish of Longview was established in 1880; from that mission parish has sprung the St. Anthony’s Catholic parish that Longview knows today.
May 20, 1971: The names of some who made it possible were memorialized at the dedication of McWhorter Park. Bleachers near James Gibson Field were packed as Mayor Lois K. Jackson read names on a memorial plaque. Among them were city commissioners, park…
May 19, 1955: The president and other executives of Trailmobile Inc. were welcomed after buying a building to begin manufacturing operations in the city. Longview News and Journal Publisher Carl Estes hosted a reception attended by R.G. LeTourneau, H.H…
May 18, 1948: A $10,000 loan was made to Gregg County to hire an architect and consultant to design and plan a county hospital. The loan was co-signed by Carl L. Estes, publisher of the Longview News and Journal, and Roy H. Laird, mayor of Kilgore.
May 17, 2005: Longview entertainer Neal McCoy was named the humanitarian of the year by the Academy of Country Music for raising more than $3 million through his East Texas Angel Network. The award financed construction of Neal McCoy Playground in Spri…
Gregg County was in mourning on Feb. 10, 1897. Word was spreading that the man who had created and named the county two decades earlier was dead at the age of 66.