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JACKBORO RETAIL LOCATIONS
City Drug
City Drug is the friendly local Drug Store on the square that all of Jack County shops at for drugs, gifts and greeting cards. Small town drug stores because they're quaint, colorful and full of fun and unusual gift items. "I recommend that you go by for a visit if ever in Jacksboro." -Says, Caddylak Maxy.
A Little About Jacksboro Texas
Jacksboro, the county seat of Jack County, is a prosperous agribusiness center located at the intersection of U.S. highways 281 and 380 in the approximate center of Jack County. Attracted by the offerings of the Texas Emigration and Land Office settlers started to populate the area in the mid-1850s. The area around Lost Creek formed a nucleus from which a community developed. A second site called Mesquiteville was made county seat in 1858 and then renamed to honor the Jack Brothers – veterans of the Texas Revolution.
Jacksboro received mail service in 1859 – even while the Butterfield Overland Mail was still in operation (Butterfield service was stopped by the War of Southern Rebellion in 1861).
Jacksboro, located in one of the few Texas counties to vote against secession, was the most westward settlement still standing in Texas after the Civil War. It had been devastated by Indian raids and consisted of fewer than a dozen ramshackle buildings, most in ruins. In 1870 the completion of Fort Richardson just south of the town made the site safe for settlers; the population of the county seat increased to several hundred, and the town became established as the trading center for the county. Jacksboro received national publicity in 1871 when the Kiowa chiefs Satanta and Big Tree were tried for murder in the district court there. The Chicago and Rock Island Railroad arrived in 1898 and in 1910 a second railroad (the Gulf, Texas, and Western) built through the town.
In 1900 the population broke 1,000 and by 1930 it had almost doubled – many people brought in by the discovery of oil in nearby Bryson and Antelope. It fluctuated over the next fifty years and was more than 4,000 in the mid-1980s; by then the town housed just over 50 percent of the county's population. The community supported a number of churches, public schools, a high school, a popular fishing and swimming spot at nearby Lake Jacksboro, Fort Richardson State Historical Park, and the annual Mesquiteville Days festival. In 1990 the population was 3,350.
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Last Update: Friday July 27, 2007 1:10 P.M.
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