City Corner February 2026

Get Hydrated with Nacogdoches Main Street’s “Downtown Sip Around” from February 15-March15
 
The Downtown Sip Around is a month-long drink competition featuring cocktails, mocktails, coffee creations, and more from downtown restaurants — and you get to help choose the winners!
 February 13 – March 15
 
 How It Works
• Visit participating downtown restaurants
• Order their featured Sip Around drink
• Vote online for your favorites
• Repeat at as many locations as you’d like!
 Alcoholic & non-alcoholic options available — something to sip for everyone.
 Prizes
• People’s Choice – Alcoholic Drink
• People’s Choice – Non-Alcoholic Drink
• One lucky voter wins a set of tickets to the Nacogdoches Wine Swirl (April 11)
Big flavor. Zero pressure. Info on participating restaurants coming soon!
 
Nacogdoches Historic Sites Presents Photography Exhibition: The Upshaws of County Line, an exhibit by Richard Orton
Zion Hill Baptist Church Historic Site is proud to present The Upshaws of County Line: An American Family, a powerful photographic exhibit documenting the history and legacy of a Deep East Texas freedom colony. Beginning February 11, the exhibit will be available to view during regular business hours: Wednesday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and the first two Saturdays of each month from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
 
In 1988, photographer Richard Orton began what became a twenty-five-year project documenting life in the African American community of County Line, founded in the 1870s by the newly emancipated Upshaw brothers, Guss, Felix, and Jim, and their families. County Line represents a lesser-known post-Emancipation story of formerly enslaved individuals who established independent, land-owning communities known as freedom colonies, largely beyond the reach of the dominant white culture of the Jim Crow era. For more information, please email historicsites@nactx.us or call 936-560-4441.
 
Nacogdoches Historic Sites Presents Raise Your Head Up, a documentary by Richard Orton
A documentary by Richard Orton uncovering the history, resilience, and legacy of East Texas freedom colonies.
 
Raise Your Head Up is an eight-year documentary project that traces the history and legacy of freedom colonies in East Texas—communities established by formerly enslaved African Americans after Emancipation. The film began with Richard Orton’s first visit in 1988 to the freedom colony of County Line in northwest Nacogdoches County and grew through decades of relationships with descendants from several freedom colonies, revealing stories of resilience, self-determination, and community building.
 
The screening will include an introduction by Richard Orton, followed by a Q&A discussion after the film.
This event is free and open to the public; registration is required. Registration is available at Eventbrite.com. For assistance with registration, please call 936-560-4441.