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B. Business & Organizational Collection

 Classification
Identifier: B
The Business and Organizational Collection provides insight into regional commercial and non-profit activities. Church registers, doctors ledgers, scrapbooks from various clubs and organizations, and business records from companies such as Mahdeen Hair Tonic, Minton & Minton Lawyers, and Rusk General Store are among some of the collections. A variety of organizations have donated records including the East Texas Historical Association, Texas State Genealogical Society, Four Seasons Garden Club, Center Woman's Reading Club and the Nacogdoches Rotary Club. These collections document the social, cultural and economic history of East Texas from European colonialism to the present day and provide a view into southern culture and life.

Found in 146 Collections and/or Records:

Nacogdoches County Historical Survey Committee, Confederate Veterans Project Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0033
Scope and Contents

The collection includes newspaper clippings about the project; historical articles about the veterans; veteran's service records from the Texas State Archives and National Archives; cemetery records and other notes about veterans; correspondence of or about the veterans; and muster rolls and officer lists for Nacogdoches, Angelina, San Augustine, Rusk, and Galveston Counties.

Dates: 1861-1966

Nacogdoches County Postal Services Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0004
Scope and Contents

Collection includes history of Nacogdoches County Post Offices, newspaper articles, blueprints of the Nacogdoches Office, diagram of lock boxes, map of rural routes for Nacogdoches, and a box and key register.

Dates: 1846-1993

Nacogdoches County Courthouse Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0034
Scope and Contents The records in this collection are from the Nacogdoches County civil court and criminal courts. Civil court records include civil cases, tax inventories, lists of taxable property, bonds, Board of Land Commissioner oaths and other records, survey files, receipts for field notes, writs of habeas corpus, land records, naturalization papers, inquest records, estray papers, and audited accounts. There are also personal and business records for A. A. Nelson. Criminal court records are court...
Dates: 1787-1879

Nacogdoches Genealogical Society Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0054
Scope and Contents

With the purpose of sharing ideas and methods in family research, the society collects information on Nacogdoches County and surrounding areas to compile and preserve. The collection includes minutes, yearbooks, membership directories, scrapbooks, financial records, semi-annual publications, and miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1976-2007

Nacogdoches Grocery Company Purchase Journal

 Collection
Identifier: B-0048
Scope and Contents

The journal shows purchases made by the company. Newspaper clippings relating to actor Errol Flynn have been pasted on some of the pages

Dates: 1907-1910

Nacogdoches Historical Society Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0028
Scope and Contents The collection includes minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings and stationery of the original Historical Society. Other items include reports on sales and distribution of the Nacogdoches Historical Pamphlet; a list of major accomplishments, 1934-1937; a history of the Society by Miss Virgie Sanders; membership cards; a 1937 program; and invitations. Three items relating to the reorganized Society are contained in the collection. Scrapbooks from 1934-1948 were compiled by Miss Virgie...
Dates: 1934-1969

Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0079
Scope and Contents

Original handwritten minutes of board and committee meetings, typed transcript of meeting minutes, program for dedication of addition, correspondence, newspaper articles and photos.

Dates: 1929-1996

Nacogdoches Rotary Club Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0113
Scope and Contents

These papers include the Nacogdoches Rotary Club's programs (Rotary Thunder) for the years 1945-2017. The collection also includes the Rotary Club's directory for the years 1982-1986, the constitution and by-laws of the Rotary Club, both of which were adopted on July 23, 1976.

Dates: 1945-2017

Nacogdoches Store Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: B-0099
Scope and Contents This is a general store ledger with an index of customers. The accounts of Dr. Robert Anderson Irion are pasted inside the book. Items of particular interest include: This ledger includes the purchases of many prominent early Texans, including: Henry Raguet, Thomas J. Rusk, Frost Thorn, Lyne T. Barret, Bennett Blake, and Adolphus Sterne. The ledger notes the prices of certain goods in Nacogdoches in 1847-48, as well as items in high demand, including quinine. This...
Dates: 1847-1848

Nacogdoches, Texas Board of Aldermen Minutes

 Collection
Identifier: B-0011
Scope and Contents

These volumes, in addition to the minutes of Board meetings, include the Bylaws of the Corporation of Nacogdoches for April, 1851. Also included in volume 2 are the Minutes of the Nacogdoches Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samaria for 1855-1858

Dates: 1851-1862, 1866, 1877

New Birmingham Development Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0078
Scope and Contents

Six volumes 1907-1975, of minute books of the Board of Directors

Dates: 1906-1975

Old Opera House, Nacogdoches, Texas Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0108
Dates: 1846-1924

Order of the Eastern Star, Past Matrons Club, Nacogdoches, Texas Minutes

 Collection
Identifier: B-0008
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the minutes of the meetings of the Club.

Dates: 1944-1948

Parmalee and Roeder General Store Journal

 Collection
Identifier: B-0098
Scope and Contents

The ledger has accounts of customers at the store and includes prices of cigars, crackers, calico, wine and other items. It is bound with Richard Parmalee's District Clerk's fee book (1839-1850).

Dates: 1837-1838

Planter’s Hotel, Nacogdoches, Texas Daybook

 Collection
Identifier: B-0013
Scope and Contents

The original daybook contains the names and accounts of hotel guests and Nacogdoches citizens who took meals or lodging there from 1854 to 1858. Also contained in the volume is what appears to be a county record of fees for court cases, 1877-1878. A photocopy of the daybook is also present.

Dates: 1854-1858

Dr. W. A. Ramsey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B-0082
Scope and Contents

There are three ledgers 1914-1917, 1918-1920, and 1921-1927 from Dr. W. A. Ramsey's office.

Dates: 1914-1927

Daughters of the American Revolution, Nacogdoches Chapter Records

 Collection
Identifier: B-0030
Scope and Contents This historical collection includes diaries, correspondence, legal papers, military papers, financial papers, advertisements, almanacs, catalogs, genealogy, and land grants, some of which are signed by Texas and United States presidents and Texas governors. Subjects covered include the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, World War II, education, women's clubs, churches, social events, Texas and World fairs, and other exhibitions. The dates of the historical collection range from 1660...
Dates: 1926-2002

James Joseph Greve Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B-0112
Scope and Contents

Papers of a former Nacogdoches County, Texas, attorney regarding warranty deeds, execution of wills, deeds of sale, deeds of trust, oil and gas leases, divorces, quit claim deeds, promissory notes, fire insurance policy, field notes and vendors lien notes

Dates: 1891-1956

Fairview Methodist Church Register, Nacogdoches, Texas

 Collection
Identifier: B-0036
Scope and Contents

The church register list members from 1871 to 1966. Also included are lists of the church's pastors, 1889-1966, infant baptisms from 1889, marriages performed from 1871, a Trustees report for church property in 1936, and a Board of Trustees report on church property for October 21, 1963.

Dates: 1871-1966