The Library, located in Rusk, received a Tocker Foundation grant. Rusk was established by an act of the Texas legislature on April 11, 1846, which defined the boundaries of Cherokee County and called for the county seat to be named for Gen. Thomas Jefferson Rusk, one of the signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence.
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A state historical marker designates the Rusk newspaper as the state's oldest, continuously published weekly. Its rich roots planted in 1850, when Texas was a young state. Funded by a Tocker Foundation grant.
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Whitehead, Marie.Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 148, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1997,
newspaper,
January 9, 1997;
Rusk, Texas.
(texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth152302/:
accessed February 22, 2019),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting Singletary Memorial Library.