Henderson

Henderson lies in the Piney Woods of East Texas, where rolling, wooded terrain marks the transition from the state’s interior prairies to its eastern forest belt. As the seat of Rusk County, it serves a largely rural area shaped by timber, farming and petroleum. The town is closely associated with the 1930 discovery of the East Texas Oil Field, when a well drilled by C. M. Joiner near Henderson set off one of the country’s great oil booms. Downtown retains a traditional courthouse-square focus, with civic life and local businesses gathered around the Rusk County Courthouse. Named for James Pinckney Henderson, Texas’s first governor, the city links the state’s early political history with its oil-era development. Move on to other webcams in East Texas to compare landscapes and settings around the Piney Woods.

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