Jack County Museum

Jack County Museum Located in the home of Tom Marks, founder of Texas 4-H. Dedicated to preserving Jack County History. The museum is closed until further notice.

We are using this time for renovations.

05/28/2026

Come see us! We’ll have a variety of ages and colors of kittens and young cats!

05/27/2026

"The Bone Pickers of the Red River
In 1874, after the great buffalo slaughter on the Texas Panhandle, 16-year-old Irish immigrant Kate Mahoney and her blind father walked the Red River breaks collecting buffalo bones. The hides were gone, the meat rotted, but fertilizer companies paid 6 dollars a ton for skeletons. For two years they lived in a dugout, loading bones onto wagons with their hands. Skulls, ribs, femurs — the plains were white with them. At night Kate read Ivanhoe to her father by firelight, his fingers tracing the scars on her palms. They bought 80 acres with bone money. Kate told the Amarillo Daily in 1921: “We built our farm on ghosts. Every row of corn stands on something that ran.” She refused to ever plow too deep.
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05/27/2026

5/27/1870: Famous cattle trail debuts in print
In its edition for this day in 1870, the Kansas Daily Commonwealth made the earliest known printed reference to the Chisholm Trail, the major livestock route out of Texas. Cattle drovers followed the old Shawnee Trail by way of San Antonio, Austin, and Waco, where the trails split. The Chisholm Trail continued on to Fort Worth, then passed east of Decatur to the crossing at Red River Station. It followed the same route as modern U.S. Highway 81 from Fort Worth to Newton, Kansas. Although the Chisholm Trail was used only from 1867 to 1884, the longhorn cattle driven north along it provided a steady source of income that helped the impoverished state recover from the Civil War.

History being made with Jacksboro FFA Meats! A great store with quality meats butchered and cut and packaged by Jacksbo...
05/27/2026

History being made with Jacksboro FFA Meats! A great store with quality meats butchered and cut and packaged by Jacksboro High School FFA students!

We enjoyed our visit from the Keenagers from Live Oak Baptist Church!
05/27/2026

We enjoyed our visit from the Keenagers from Live Oak Baptist Church!

Remembering those who paid the ultimate price in service to our country.
05/26/2026

Remembering those who paid the ultimate price in service to our country.

05/23/2026

The Texas State Parks Board produced this map in August of 1936. Parks were designated as completed, under construction, and approved using patterns and blacked out shapes on the map. Brownwood, Meridian, Stephenville, and Mineral Wells were all completed at this time, while Palo Duro Canyon, Garner, and Mother Neff were still under construction. Get a closer look and download a copy using our Texas State Archives Map Collection database here: https://www.tsl.texas.gov/apps/arc/maps/maplookup/06929

Image: Map of Texas showing State Parks, State Parks Board, 1936. Y.P. Kuhn, cartographer. Texas State Archives Map Collection, no. 6929. TSLAC.

Texas State Parks

05/23/2026

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Congratulations and best wishes to the Jacksboro High School 2026 graduates!
05/23/2026

Congratulations and best wishes to the Jacksboro High School 2026 graduates!

Address

241 W Belknap Street
Jacksboro, TX
76458

Opening Hours

Friday 11am - 2pm
Saturday 11am - 2pm

Telephone

(940) 567-5410

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