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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CZA_james-b-dosher_Jacksboro-TX.html
James B. Dosher moved to Texas in 1847 and served in Cureton's Company of the Texas Rangers. Discharged in 1848, he married Velma Eddings in 1851. They settled in Jack County in early 1855 and worked their farm south of Jacksboro. Dosher also serv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28SI_lost-battalion_Jacksboro-TX.html
Battery F, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, 36th Division, Texas National Guard mobilized here November 1940, for active duty. Sailed from San Francisco, November 1941, was at sea when Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Went to defend Java wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28SC_former-gulf-texas-western-railroad-depot_Jacksboro-TX.html
Erected 1910, of stone from nearby quarry; Risley Brothers, contractors.
A facility of Jacksboro's second railroad, built by local effort, with backing from New York bankers, R. C. Megargel and Company.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28S5_butterfield-stage-line_Jacksboro-TX.html
Here ran the Southern Overland
Mail Line connecting St. Louis and
San Francisco with semi-weekly
stage and mail service, 1858-1861
The length of the route, 2,795
miles, and the superior service
maintained made this a pioneer
enterprise of f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QR_fort-richardson_Jacksboro-TX.html
As partially reconstructed in 1936
Established by the United States War Department
on November 26, 1867
as a protection of the frontier
against hostile Indians
Named in honor of
General Israel B. Richardson, U.S.A.,
killed at Antietam, Sept…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B1Y_first-baptist-church_Jacksboro-TX.html
United States soldiers still manned nearby Fort Richardson when this church was organized with seven charter members in 1875. The congregation met in the Masonic Lodge hall and county courthouse before erecting their first church building in 1889.…