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Manning |
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Huntington vicinity,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
31° 8' 27.0996",
-94° 32' 18.6972"
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Texas State
Historical Marker |
The community of Manning grew up around the operations of the Carter-Kelley Lumber Company, established here about 1906. The town was named for D. W. W. Manning (b. 1820) who started a sawmill here in 1867. By 1929 Manning had a population of 1300 and included a movie theater, a school, stores, churches, a post office, and a railroad depot. The town began to decline after a fire destroyed the mill in the mid-1930s, and operations were moved to Camden (30 mi. W). The townsite is now marked by homes, sawmill ruins, and a cemetery. (1980, 1995) Supplemental plaque: This house and what was left of Manning after the mill fire of 1936 were bought by Morgan M. Flournoy. Here he and his wife Ruby raised five children.
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
Manning Historical Marker Location Map, Huntington vicinity, Texas
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