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JERMYN,
TEXAS
Texas Ghost
Town
Jack County, North Central Texas
Highway 114 and FM 1191
2.5 miles E of the Young County Line
10 miles NW of Jacksboro
20 mile NE of Graham
Population: 75 (2000)
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The closed
First Methodist Church in Jermyn
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, 2005 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
Jermyn got off
to a late start and has no 19th century history. Born in 1902 and
named after J. J. Jermyn, son of a Pennsylvania coal magnate, the
town is one of Jack County's last towns to appear. Cattlemen Oliver
Loving and W. P. Stewart were the men who donated the townsite.
In 1909 the Gulf, Texas and Western Railroad arrivied and by the 1920s
the town had the basic institutions for banking, schooling and commerce
and a population just over 200. According to the Handbook of Texas
the population mysteriously swelled to 1,066 by 1968 but has since
declined to the figure of 75 - the same number that appeared for the
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The
volunteer fire department in Jermyn
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, 2005 |
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Jermyn,
Texas Forum
Subject: Jermyn,
Texas Methodist Church
My name is Ann Rankin Ordonez. I wonder [if any of your readers know]
who owns the church property at this time. I had considered trying
to buy and restore it. Probably wishful thinking, but worth checking
out. I am really tired of the big city. I graduated from Antelope
in 1958. I was there and in Jermyn in June of this year with cousins.
We all grew up in the area. Their Dad, Eddie Owen ran for sherif of
Jack County, I think in 1956 or 57 but lost. He owned an oil-well
servicing company in Jacksboro. I wrote you another time about my
Mom who wrote the Pops Eatin column for one of the Jacksboro papers.
- Ann Rankin, Tomball, Texas, Arankin1940@aol.com , September 20,
2006
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