Wood-Jackson House
Rockport, Aransas County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Tobias “T.R.” Wood purchased lots at a sheriff’s auction in 1910 and built this Queen Anne style house. T.R. worked on his father’s cattle ranch located on San Jose Island. When T.R. moved to Victoria to practice law, his brother, Will W. Wood and wife Alpha Kennedy Wood, resided in the home. In 1923, the house was purchased by Stephen Ford Jackson and wife Irene, owners of the Jackson Seafood Company. Their sons, James and Norvell Jackson, started a boat building company called Jackson Marine Service and a third business, Jackson Channel and Dock. Features include front, rear and side-facing gables, a semi-wraparound covered porch supported by columns and spindlework ornamentation.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Tobias "T.R." Wood bought these lots at a sheriff's auction in 1910 and built a Queen Anne house near the Rockport waterfront, where his family had ranched cattle on San Jose Island. In 1923 it passed to Stephen Ford Jackson and his wife Irene, owners of the Jackson Seafood Company, whose sons went on to found a boatbuilding firm and a channel-and-dock business. With its front, rear, and side gables, semi-wraparound porch, and spindlework trim, the house reflects the seafaring commerce that built coastal Rockport.
Why it matters
The house connects the ranching and seafood families whose boatbuilding and fishing enterprises shaped the working economy of the Texas coast.
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Related people
- · Tobias "T.R." Wood
- · Stephen Ford Jackson
- · Alpha Kennedy Wood
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