Ewing Mound Hunting Club is located in Eastern Angelina County at the site of the once thriving sawmill town of Ewing. The town, which was in existence from 1920 to 1944, was named after Jim Ewing, an early plantation owner. The mill was located on the Angelina and Neches River Railroad and was renamed the Angelina Hardwood Lumber Company after it was purchased by J. H. Kurth and S. W. Henderson, Sr. At its peak, the town had nearly 1,000 residents, stores, churches and post office and cut 80 thousand board feet of timber per day. A lack of labor and the cost of hauling logs from far away contributed to the blowing of the closing whistle for the mill in December of 1944. The present day Ewing Mound Hunting Club derives its name from the large mounds that were left from the burned piles of scrap lumber and slag at the Ewing mill site.