Lindale, Texas

Everything Lindale is known for

7 songs mention this city 3 artists from here

Lindale, Texas, a city in East Texas, has a notable connection to country music. It is recognized as an Official Texas Music-Friendly Community and is known for its live music scene. Country music star Miranda Lambert, who grew up in Lindale, often references her hometown in her songs, including "Famous in a Small Town" and "The House That Built Me." Other country artists, Chris Colston and Daniel Andrews, also call Lindale home.

Music in Lindale

Songs About Lindale

Bluebird
miranda lambert
45%
Gunpowder & Lead
miranda lambert
45%
Kerosene
miranda lambert
45%
Mama's Broken Heart
miranda lambert
45%
The House That Built Me
miranda lambert
45%
Like You That Way
Canaan Smith
7%
"Girl, you’re Miranda Lambert crazy and I like you that way"
Famous in a Small Town
Miranda Lambert
2%
"I made the front page of the "Turner Town Gazette""

Artists From Lindale

M
Miranda Lambert
country
C
Chris Colston
country
D
Daniel Andrews
country

Rivers & Roads in Song near Lindale

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Lindale.

Interstate 20 13 songs Sabine River 13 songs Neches River 2 songs Kickapoo Creek 4 songs

Musical Heritage

Miranda Lambert RoadyGoat

Before the platinum, there was a red envelope. Miranda Lambert grew up in Lindale, out in East Texas, and she and her father Rick just drove — town to town, gig to gig, trying to get somebody to hear her. One of those demos, packaged in a red envelope, landed her an opening slot in Dallas for Roger Creager. At nineteen she opened for Willie Nelson at the Gypsy Tea Room, down in Deep Ellum. She took third on the show Nashville Star, then signed with Sony and dropped her debut, Kerosene, in 2005. Six platinum albums later, with Grammys for Platinum and for Wildcard on the shelf — it all traces back to a girl, her dad, and a Texas highway.

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History of Lindale

Lindale, TX RoadyGoat

Lindale, Texas, a small town in Smith County in the piney woods of East Texas, punches well above its weight for famous people.

Lindale, TX RoadyGoat

In the early 19th century, the Caddo and Cherokee Indians inhabited the area where Lindale, Texas now stands. The Cherokee were forced out when the Republic of Texas was founded in 1836. After the Civil War, Richard B. Hubbard, a former Confederate officer and plantation owner, sought a better way to ship his produce. He convinced railroad officials to lay track between Tyler and Mineola. His brother-in-law, Elijah Lindsey, opened the town's first general store in 1871, and Lindale was born. Lindsey became the town's first mayor a year later.

Lindale, TX RoadyGoat

Lindale's story is deeply intertwined with the land and its bounty. While these days you might know us for Miranda Lambert or the convenience of that I-20 corridor stretching between Dallas and Shreveport, the real heart of Lindale has always been agriculture, particularly roses and berries. The gently rolling hills and sandy loam soil, coupled with our East Texas climate, create the perfect conditions for growing things. You see, after the railroad came through in the 1870s, folks realized the potential of this land. While cotton was initially king in this area, farmers began experimenting with fruit crops. By the early 20th century, strawberries, blackberries, and dewberries were shipped out by the railcar load, and eventually, roses joined the party. The sandy soil that drains well is perfect for roses, and a whole industry grew up around them. Even though the rose farms aren’t as prevalent as they once were, the spirit of hard work and connection to the land remains. It's a legacy built on the sweet smell of berries and the delicate beauty of roses, a reminder that even in a changing world, the roots of this town run deep.

Hubbard Family Cemetery

1854

This site once overlooked the plantation home of Richard B. Hubbard (1800-1864) and his wife Serena Carter, who came here from Georgia in 1854. They operated a prosperous 720-acre plantation with 44 slaves. Their son Richard Bennett Hubbard (1832-1901), later a governor of Texas, had graduated from Harvard Law School and set up his practice in Tyler. While young Hubbard served with the Confederate army during the Civil War, his wife and children moved to the plantation. His twin daughters Mattie and Hattie died in 1863 and were buried on this hill. Also interred here are Hubbard's father, his infant daughter Claudia and his wife Eliza (d. 1868). The last interment was his nine-year-old son Bennie in 1877. Slave burials are marked with ironstone in this family plot. Hubbard served as lieutenant governor, 1874-1876, and governor, 1876-1879. He was a railroad promoter and a leader in the state and national Democratic Party. President Grover Cleveland appointed him United States Minister to Japan. During his service there, 1885-1890, his second wife Janie Roberts died of cholera. She and Hubbard, along with other members of the family, are buried in Tyler's Oakwood Cemetery.

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Duck Creek Soil Erosion Project

1929

In 1929, one of ten erosion control research stations in the United States was set up southeast of this site for the purpose of studying erosion problems and the effectiveness of erosion control methods. This was one of the first organized efforts to solve the nation's soil erosion problems in a planned, scientific manner. Five years later, in 1934, the Duck Creek watershed near this site was approved as a demonstrational project for working with all known methods of erosion control. In cooperation with the landowners in the 25,000-acre area, a plan of conservation treatment was devised for each farm. Much of the labor used in carrying out these plans, such as building dams and fences and planting trees and pasture grass, was provided by a nearby Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp. The success of the Duck Creek project attracted much attention and many visitors to the area. Duck Creek was used by the Soil Conservation Service as a training ground for agronomists, soil surveyors, engineers, biologists, foresters, economists, and others who carried knowledge learned here to many other states across the country.

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Site of Flora

1845

James K. Beene settled in this area in 1845 and established a post office called Flora in 1849. John and Delila Austin and their daughter and son-in-law, Mary and Willis Jones, bought adjacent farms in 1850. Flora community grew up around their properties on the Dallas-Shreveport Road. By 1853, James Monroe Luckey had opened Flora's first store and Carmel Baptist Church was organized nearby. The first sale of a town lot in Flora was recorded in 1855. By 1860 the town boasted three doctors, two blacksmiths, a Masonic lodge and three stores. The hardships of the Civil War years brought about the decline of the thriving community. By 1871 all the businesses were gone, the Masonic lodge had moved to Garden Valley, and Flora became a ghost town. (2001)

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Wilson, Arthur [Dooley]

1942

Dooley Wilson, actor and musician, was born Arthur Wilson in Tyler, Texas, on April 3, 1886. Some sources list 1894 as the year of his birth, but Wilson's gravestone gives 1886. Wilson's career spanned more than forty years. He began at age twelve with performances in vaudeville as a minstrel player. Around 1908 he performed in black theater in Chicago and New York. It was during this time that he got his nickname, "Dooley," as a performer in Pekin Theatre in Chicago. The name was taken from "Mr. Dooley," Wilson's signature song at the time. During the 1920s he led his own band—the Red Devils—in which he performed as a singing drummer on a nightclub tour of Paris and London. He returned to the United States in 1930 and gave up his drums for an acting career. He performed with Orson Welles and John Houseman in Federal Theater productions and then landed a Broadway role in the musical Cabin in the Sky . Wilson made his film debut in 1939. Although his roles were primarily supporting ones, he made film history as Sam, the pianist–singer in Casablanca who performs "As Time Goes By." Director Hal Wallis wanted a woman for the role but chose Wilson instead, although Wilson "couldn't...play piano." The director allowed Wilson to sing, but the piano playing was dubbed. Wilson was under contract to Paramount and on loan to MGM. His film credits include Keep Punching (1939); My Favorite Blonde , Night in New Orleans , Take a Letter Darling , Cairo , and Casablanca (1942); Two Tickets to London , Stormy Weather , and Higher and Higher (1943); Seven Days Ashore (1944); Triple Threat and Racing Luck (1948); Free for All and Come to the Stable (1949); and Passage West (1951). In 1945 Wilson had a prominent role in the New York musical Bloomer Girl . He also acted in Beulah , one of the first television series starring black actors, in 1951. He was on the board of directors of the Negro Actors Guild of America. He died in Los Angeles on May 30, 1953, shortly after his retirement, and was buried in Angelus Rosedale Cemetery. He was survived by his wife, Estelle.

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Hogg, Ima

1913

Ima Hogg, philanthropist and patron of the arts, daughter of Sarah Ann (Stinson) and Governor James Stephen Hogg , was born in Mineola, Texas, on July 10, 1882. She had three brothers, William Clifford Hogg , born in 1875; Michael, born in 1885; and Thomas Elisha Hogg, born in 1887. According to family history, Ima was named for the heroine of a Civil War poem written by her uncle Thomas Elisha. Her name became a part of Texas folklore, along with the myth of a fictitious sister supposedly named Ura. Ima Hogg was affectionately known as Miss Ima for most of her long life. She was eight years old when her father was elected governor; she spent much of her early life in Austin. After her mother died of tuberculosis in 1895, Ima attended the Coronal Institute in San Marcos, and in 1899 she entered the University of Texas. She started playing the piano at age three and in 1901 went to New York to study music. Her father's illness drew her back to Texas in 1905. After his death in 1906 she continued her music studies in Berlin and Vienna from 1907 to 1909. She then moved to Houston, where she gave piano lessons to a select group of pupils and helped found the Houston Symphony Orchestra , which played its first concert in June 1913. Miss Ima served as the first vice president of the Houston Symphony Society and became president in 1917. She became ill in late 1918 and spent the next two years in Philadelphia under the care of a specialist in mental and nervous disorders. She did not return to Houston to live until 1923. In the meantime, oil had been struck on the Hogg property near West Columbia, Texas, and by the late 1920s Miss Ima was involved in a wide range of philanthropic projects. In 1929 she founded the Houston Child Guidance Center, an agency to provide therapy and counseling for disturbed children and their families. In 1940, with a bequest from her brother Will, who had died in 1930, she established the Hogg Foundation for Mental Hygiene, which later became the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at the University of Texas. In 1943 Miss Hogg, a lifelong Democrat, won an election to the Houston school board, where she worked to establish symphony concerts for schoolchildren, to get equal pay for teachers regardless of sex or race, and to set up a painting-to-music program in the public schools. In 1946 she again became president of the Houston Symphony Society, a post she held until 1956, and in 1948 she became the first woman president of the Philosophical Society of Texas . Since the 1920s she had been studying and collecting early American art and antiques, and in 1966 she presented her collection and Bayou Bend, the River Oaks mansion she and her brothers had built in 1927, to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. The Bayou Bend Collection, recognized as one of the finest of its kind, draws thousands of visitors each year. In the 1950s Miss Ima restored the Hogg family home at Varner Plantation near West Columbia, and in 1958 she presented it to the state of Texas. It became Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historical Site . In the 1960s she restored the Winedale Inn, a nineteenth-century stagecoach stop at Round Top, Texas, which she gave to the University of Texas. The Winedale Historical Center now serves as a center for the study of Texas history and is also the site of a widely acclaimed annual fine arts festival. Miss Hogg also restored her parents' home at Quitman, Texas, and in 1969 the town of Quitman established the Ima Hogg Museum in her honor. In 1953 Governor Allan Shivers appointed her to the Texas State Historical Survey Committee (later the Texas Historical Commission ), and in 1967 that body gave her an award for "meritorious service in historic preservation." In 1960 she served on a committee appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the planning of the National Cultural Center (now Kennedy Center) in Washington, D.C. In 1962, at the request of Jacqueline Kennedy, Ima Hogg served on an advisory panel t

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Things to Do in Lindale

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Everything Near Lindale

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