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Albany is located northeast of Abilene, the seat of Taylor County. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.8 km 2 ), all land. Climate
Shackelford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 3,105. [1] Its county seat is Albany. [2] The county was created in 1858 and later organized in 1874. [3] Shackelford is named for Dr. Jack Shackelford, a Virginia physician who equipped soldiers at his own expense to fight in the Texas ...
Albany Municipal Airport (FAA LID: T23) is a city-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) east of the central business district of Albany, a city in Shackelford County, Texas, United States. [1]
Shackelford County was established in 1858, and its county seat was placed at Albany, Texas, in 1874. A wood-frame courthouse was raised in 1875, and a county jail (now the Old Jail Art Center) was built alongside it in 1878.
Location of Shackelford County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Shackelford County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Shackelford County, Texas. There are one district and four individual properties ...
The Old Jail Art Center (OJAC) is an art and regional history museum in Albany, Texas.It is housed in a former jail that was completed in 1878. After being replaced by a new jail in 1929, the old jail building was saved from demolition by local author and playwright Robert E. Nail Jr. in 1940.
The Fort Griffin Fandangle is the oldest outdoor musical in the state of Texas. The musical takes place at an outdoor theater, called The Prairie Theatre, in Albany, Texas. Created by Robert Nail in 1938, the Fandangle has grown to a cast of over 400 and celebrates the founding of Fort Griffin and the settling of Albany. The show is attended by ...
Fort Griffin, now a Texas state historic site as Fort Griffin State Historic Site, was a US Cavalry fort established 31 July 1867 by four companies of the Sixth Cavalry, U.S. Army [2] under the command of Lt. Col. S. D. Sturgis, [3]: 64 in the western part of North Texas, specifically northwestern Shackelford County, to give settlers protection from early Comanche and Kiowa raids.