Historical Marker
Pinetucky
Historical marker location:
Kirbyville, Texas
( from Kirbyville take FM 1013 W 9 mi.; then N on FM 1005 1.4 mi.)
Marker installed: 1973
Name originally applied to widely scattered settlement astride Wiess Bluff-Jasper Road. First settlers, Alexander and Sherod Wright, came into area about 1824. Magnolia Springs Post Office opened at this site in 1850; within a few years the community had a store, church, and grist mill on Wright's (later Mill) Creek; a mill and tannery were on nearby Tanyard Branch.
Texas Tram & Lumber Co. had extensive logging operation in area in 1880s-90s. Decline began with arrival of the railroad in Kirbyville, 1895. Post office was moved to present site in 1905.