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The pride and pleasure of living in Linden is shown in this 1948 parade picture of the Allen brothers, longtime merchants in town. Linden has had a way for putting itself in a good light.
Here’s a better look at the 1948 parade winding around the Linden square. That’s the Fuller Supply float at the front.The look is eastward. Piggy Wiggly, the movie theater, county office building and post office can be seen.
Sometimes a town’s history can be remembered in the photograph of one person and their work.This picture of Leola Cole, born in 1890, tells she was working as a telephone operator in the Davis Building during the 1908 tornado. The building was destroyed

WHERE IS IT?

Everyone enjoys a quiz. Even the one who knows the answers and is doing the asking. So, this week’s Where Is It? Mystery game is a quiz of seven questions and one discussion point. The subject of the quiz is the town of Linden. Do you know Linden well enough to brag to the tourist who has come to see Texas’s oldest courthouse still in continuous use? Here’s quiz to help you. Good luck.

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