Moving - Lufkin, Texas

 If you are looking for a local moving company to relocate you in or out of Lukfin TX, we can help you.  Continental Relocation’s moving services include packing, crating, moving, and storage if you need some time to search for your new home.

To help familiarize you with this fine neighborhood, please read our brief history about Lufkin, TX.  It’s interesting.

A Brief History of Lufkin, Texas

To help familiarize you with this fine neighborhood, please read our brief history about Lufkin, TX.  It’s interesting.

A Brief History of Lufkin, Texas

Lufkin is named after Railroad Engineer E.P. Lufkin and Angelina County is named after an Indian girl who became an enthusiastic convert of the Franciscan missionaries. A bronze statue across from the Museum of East Texas honors her.

If you've ever been behind an 18 wheeler on the Interstate and have seen the word LUFKIN on the back of the trailer, it is from our featured town. In a convoluted evolution, the carriages that ran logs through the saw, became carriages that extracted logs from the forest. During WWII, the same company manufactured carriages to support howitzers, then school buses and finally they made the trailers that we see today.

Lufkin Industries also builds the pumping units you see all around oil fields. The Lufkin Industries historical relics room has one of these pumping units that was struck by a Japanese torpedo off the coast of California in 1942. It was damaged, but was not destroyed. How's that for proof of durability?

W.C. Trout, one of Lufkin Industries pioneers, bought the town it's first horse-drawn fire engine shortly after his gasoline stove exploded and burned his house to cinders. The Trout name is also seen at the Zoo. Walter Trout (one of W.C. Trout's sons) named the zoo after his mother Ellen. The zoo started in 1965 when a friend sent Walter Trout a 500 lb. baby hippopotamus as a combination gag gift/ zoo starter kit.

Lufkin's influence on the timber and oil industries in Texas cannot be overstated. Lufkin along with nearby Nacogdoches provide excellent bases for further exploration of East Texas.

The above information on Lufkin Industries and the Trout family was taken from Lufkin: From Sawdust to Oil by Elaine Jackson, Gulf Publishing, 1982

In the early teens, Lukin's water source was a standpipe in Cotton Square. The standpipe was drained in 1913 in the hope of finding the body of one Frank Parsons who disappeared after a violent explosion that destroyed a good portion of the railroad station. The blast must've been stronger than they thought. Frank's body turned up in California three years later, with Frank in it.