Albany, TX - Population 2034
N 32° 43.072 W 099° 18.515
14S E 471081 N 3620051
Albany, TX, population 2034 as of this posting. This sign is located on the south side of US 180, at the southwest city limit.
Waymark Code: WM10RDP
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/16/2019
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A 1975 Texas Historical Marker stands in Bank Park here in town, providing some history:
Chosen county seat of Shackelford in 1874, Albany had a 43-acre townsite donated by Sheriff Henry C. Jacobs. County Clerk W.R. Cruger named city for his old home, Albany, GA. A wooden picket courthouse was erected. The post office opened August 1, 1876. By late 1877 there were 16 buildings -- homes, hotels, saloons, a blacksmith shop. Merchants were T.E. Jackson and firm of Woody & Hatcher. Physicians W.T. Baird and W.M. Powell and lawyer A.A. Clarke located here. D.H. Meyer and Edgar Rye began (1879) publishing "The Albany Tomahawk". Already on the Western Cattle Trail, city expanded as a frontier shipping point when Houston & Texas Central Railroad built a terminus here in 1881.
By 1882 a church building had been erected. Music lovers organized a cornet band. In 1883 an opera hall opened, and a permanent courthouse of native stone was built. Succeeding D.R. Britt as the school principal, W.S. Dalrymple founded an adult study club, "The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle".
Albany had an academy, and then a college in 1898-1915. Local activities include ranching, petroleum production, small farming, and annual staging of the historical drama, "The Fort Griffin Fandangle".
Address: US 180, southwest city limit
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