Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Jim Hogg Park and Rusk State Park are in Rusk. The longest footbridge in the nation (c. 1861) and the longest zip line in Texas are located in Rusk. [18] The Texas State Railroad operates between Rusk and Palestine. The Heritage Center of Cherokee County & Cherokee Civic Theater are located in Rusk.
Location of Rusk County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Rusk County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Rusk County, Texas. There are one district, six individual properties, and one former property ...
Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks listed by county Anderson-Callahan • Cameron-Duval • Eastland-Gray • Grayson-Hudspeth • Hunt-Martin • Mason-Rusk • Sabine-Travis • Trinity-Zavala KEY
Rusk County is a county located in Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 52,214. [1] Its county seat is Henderson. [2] The county is named for Thomas Jefferson Rusk, a secretary of war of the Republic of Texas. Rusk County is part of the Longview, Texas metropolitan area and the Longview-Marshall combined statistical area.
The Angelina River is formed by the confluence of Barnhardt and Shawnee creeks 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Laneville in southwest central Rusk County, Texas, United States. [ 2 ] A tributary of the Neches River , the river flows southeast for 120 miles (193 km) and forms the boundaries between Cherokee and Nacogdoches , Angelina and Nacogdoches ...
U.S. Route 259 (US 259) is a north–south spur of U.S. Route 59 that runs for 250 miles (400 km) through rural areas of northeastern Texas and southeastern Oklahoma.The highway's southern terminus is near Nacogdoches, Texas, at an interchange with its parent route, US 59.
The Texas Department of Transportation had been scheduled in the summer of 2025 to begin construction on a project to replace the bridge with a new one. The project was estimated to cost $194 million.
The Texas State Railroad, also referred to as the Lone Star and Eastern Railroad, is a historic 25 mi (40 km) heritage railroad between Rusk and Palestine, Texas. Built by inmates, it was founded in 1883 by the state of Texas to haul raw materials for a smelter at the prison at Rusk. Regular service on the line was ended in 1921.