Historical Marker
Jacksboro's First Railroad Depot
Historical marker location:
Jacksboro, Texas
( at end of Depot Street, at east gate of Fort Richardson State Historical Park)
Marker installed: 1974
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.