Jack County courthouse Jacksboro Texas. (original) (raw)
Jack County Courthouse
Photo courtesy Terry Jeanson, January 2015
The Present Jack County Courthouse -
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