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This is intended to be a complete list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Jack County, Texas. Two properties are listed on the national register in the county, including one National Historic Landmark , which is also designated as a state historic site and state antiquities landmark and includes recorded Texas ...
James (Jack) Cummins was born circa 1773. He became interested in Texas from as early as July 15, 1819, while operating a salt business on the south side of the Caddo River in Arkansas. He was in Texas before June 1822 and settled on the east bank of the Colorado River, opposite the community at Beason's Ferry, site of the present town of ...
Harrell Cundiff was one of the original settlers. In the 1860s, the prospect of Indian incursions drove many settlers off their homesteads. After the Indians were driven out of Jack County in the middle of the 1870s, people started moving back to the Cundiff region. It was not until the early 1890s that a permanent community was founded.
After spending his early years in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, Best and his wife left Garrard County, Kentucky, and moved to Montgomery County in southern Missouri in 1808. There he built a mill and an outpost known as Best's Fort, which served as a refuge from Indian attacks during the War of 1812. The family and several slaves moved to Texas in ...
Jack County is a county located in the north central part of the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 8,472. [1] Its county seat is Jacksboro. [2] The county was created in 1856 and organized the next year. [3] It is named for Patrick Churchill Jack and his brother William Houston Jack, both soldiers of the Texas ...
Satanta or "White Bear" The trial of Satanta and Big Tree occurred in May 1871 in the town of Jacksboro in Jack County, Texas, United States.This historic trial of Native American war chiefs of the Kiowa Indians Satanta and Big Tree for the murder of seven teamsters during a raid on Salt Creek Prairie near Jacksboro, Texas, marked the first time the United States had tried Native American ...
A homicide victim discovered 35 years ago in a remote area of Jack County has been identified, according to a media release from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Joplin was founded in the late 1880s as a community center for local farmers. By 1896, the town had its own school, three churches, and a general store, mill, and cotton gin. The population of Joplin has never exceeded 100, the closest being the 75 residents reported from 1896 through the early 1940s.