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The Emporia Mystery by Bob Bowman 3-29-06
In the early 1900s, an explosion and fire spread throughout the old Emporia sawmill in south Angelina County. An estimated 30 sawmill workers, most of them black, are believed to have perished in the conflagration...
New London School Explosion by Archie P. McDonald 9-25-06
Dr. Bobby H. Johnson, my long-time colleague at Stephen F. Austin State University, has written a play based on the New London School Explosion which occurred on March 18, 1937...
A Tragedy's Museum by Bob Bowman 3-14-05
New London Museum
The Mittie Stephens Disaster by Archie P. McDonald 2/13/04
A steamboat disaster in Caddo Lake
The Lost Forest by Bob Bowman 5/10/02
New London School Explosion by Archie P. McDonald 12/15/01
The Galveston Storrn by Archie P. McDonald 8/19/01

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