Shared by Rusty Wood… this is really interesting… I had never heard of this once happening town called Pulaski on the Sabine River in East Texas.
“I have always enjoyed your photos and wanted to share this photo I dug out of the closet today.
“This is a centennial marker on the east bank of the Sabine River marking the former Panola County seat, a town called Pulaski. It was due west of Deadwood. This marker is on private property along the river bank that was on a deer lease I was on in the late 90’s.”
According to The Handbook of Texas, Pulaski was situated on a bluff on the east bank of the Sabine River about nine miles east of present-day Carthage and due west of present-day Deadwood. Initially known as Walnut Bluff, Pulaski was an early settlement, probably dating back to the mid-1830s. It was a ferry crossing on the Sabine River and a significant town by the early 1840s. It even had wharves and served as a port for flatboat traffic on the Sabine. The community served briefly as the county seat for Harrison County, probably from about 1841 to 1842, and as the seat for Panola County when it was formed in 1846.
Find more about Pulaski by following this link: https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online