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Jack
County Courthouse
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, January 2015 |
The
Present Jack County Courthouse -
Jacksboro, Texas
Date - 1940
Architect - Voelcker and Dixon
Style - Moderne
Material - Stone |
Jack
County Courthouse
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, January 2015 |
Jack
County Courthouse as it appeared in 1940
Photo courtesy of TXDoT |
Jack
County Courthouse Today
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, December 2005 |
Jack
County Courthouse Back View
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, April 2006 |
The
1886 Jack County Courthouse -
Jacksboro, Texas
Architect - J.E.
Flanders
Style - Second Empire
Material - native limestone
Stones from the 1886 courthouse were used to build Jacksboro City
Hall. |
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The
1886 Jack County courthouse.
Xerox copy courtesy of the county clerk's office in the current county
courthouse. |
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The
bell and cornerstone from the 1886 Jack County courthouse are now
displayed on the front lawn of the current courthouse. |
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Historical Marker
Old Jack County
Courthouse Cornerstone
Removed 1885 from
third Jack County Courthouse when building was razed. Mounted here
in 1966. Old Courthouse was of native limestone, quarried in Jacksboro.
For its day, workmanship and stone of finest quality. Bell is also
a relic of the third courthouse. It was part of the mechanism in the
building's clock tower, and was mounted in frame here by Jacksboro
firemen.
(1967) |
Historical
marker for the 1886 Jack County courthouse bell and cornerstone.
Photos courtesy Terry
Jeanson, April 2006 |
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