This Week in Texas History

The main source for this special Halloween column is Ghosts of East Texas and The Pineywoods by Mitchel Whitington. Fourteen of the 40 or so short chapters and vignettes in this 2005 book come from Jefferson, the old riverport turned tourist magnet a short distance from the Louisiana line in the northeastern corner of Texas. That stands to reason since the town first made famous by the 1870’s “Dia…