Jackson Warehouse
Albany, Shackelford County, Texas
Marker Inscription
T. E. Jackson, a prominent businessman from Fort Griffin (15 miles north) built this structure in the late 1870s as a warehouse for a general merchandise store. For more than 100 years, it served the town of Albany as the site of various commercial business, including photography studios and a cafe. The well-known department store Sanger Brothers owned the Jackson Warehouse from 1887 until 1906. The Jackson Warehouse is important as a reminder of the commercial business that made Albany an important supply point for the West Texas cattle industry. Texas Sesquicentennial, 1836-1986.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Fort Griffin businessman T. E. Jackson built this warehouse in the late 1870s to stock a general merchandise store, and for over a century it anchored Albany's commercial life as everything from photo studio to cafe. Sanger Brothers, the famed Texas department store chain, owned it from 1887 to 1906. The building recalls Albany's role as a key supply depot for the West Texas cattle industry.
Why it matters
It is a tangible reminder of how frontier supply towns provisioned the cattle economy that drove West Texas settlement after the Civil War.
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