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Jacksboro's First Railroad Depot

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Jacksboro, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 33° 12' 28.88079999984", -98° 9' 40.93543000008"
 
    Texas State
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    Built 1898 of native stone by Risley Brothers of Jacksboro, for the Chicago, Rock Island & Texas Railway, on site bought from F. F. Foscue (1819-1906), a Texas legislator, owner of Fort Richardson lands. In typical railroad architecture, the depot housed waiting rooms and offices. Mrs. Edith Wilmans, a local rancher, Texas' first (1923) woman legislator, often traveled from this station. The Rock Island system sold the structure in 1973 to Texas Export Railroad Company. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1974.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

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