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The
County was named for American Revolutionary hero Sgt.
William Jasper.
Jasper Attractions
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Texas Reginal Arts Center - 364 N Austin. 409-384-2404Jasper
County MuseumJasper'
Fireman's Museum - 205 Water St. 409-383-6168
Area Destinations
Angelina National
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RR 4 Box 274 Jasper, Texas 75951
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Jasper History -
Jasper
" ... was settled around 1824 by John Bevil. Thirty families occupied the
settlement as early as 1830, when it was known as Snow River or Bevil's Settlement.
In 1835 it was renamed for William Jasper, a hero of the American Revolution.
Jasper became the county seat in 1844..." - See Handbook of Texas Online.
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Remembering
two doctors by Bob Bowman
When doctors W.D. Thames of Lufkin and Joe Dickerson
of Jasper died recently, East Texas lost two unique physicians--men who made house
calls, kept up with the babies they delivered, and cared for whole families....Courtroom
Storytellers by Bob Bowman
Because they've seen the best and worst of
humanity, lawyers are among our best storytellers. Courtroom stories of Jasper's
Joe Tonahill and Lufkin's J.J. Collins... Joe
Tonahill of Jasper by Bob Bowman
When Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President
John F. Kennedy in 1963, an East Texas lawyer soon found himself thrust into history.
A
well-used phone book by Bob Bowman
I’ve received a telephone book adorned
with telephone numbers from the 1980’s scribbled all over the cover, the back,
and dozens of inside pages. It came from Joel Towers of Lufkin with a note that
it was his mother’s telephone book from Jasper... |
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TE photo |
1940s
Jasper County map showing Jasper and ghost towns
Courtesy Texas General Land
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Jasper
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(409) 384-2762
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Historical
Marker Text:
Jasper County, C. S. A.
Communication,
transportation, supply and military center in Civil War Texas. Voted 315 to 25
in favor of secession. Crossed by Texas troops in the 1862-64 Louisiana campaigns
to prevent split of the South and invasion of Texas. Confederate Army ran Houston-to-Alexandria,
La., military horseback courier route through here. In last years of the war,
Abel Adams, a local 14-year-old, rode this in a high lope, for Gen. John B. Magruder,
commander of the Department of Texas. Beef was driven to troops in the Old South
by way of 1823 trail across the county. Had a Confederate Quartermaster Depot
and 9-county headquarters, 2nd Brigade, Texas State Troops, under Gen. W. M. Neyland,
local citizen. County men in service on various war fronts of the South included
Co. G, 13th Texas Cavalry; Co. C, 25th Texas Cavalry, Dismounted; Co. E, 27th
Texas Cavalry, in Whitfield's Legion.
In 1865, as survivors were returning
home, Union occupation troops bivouacked in the Jasper Town Square. Commander
was Gen. George Custer, later to go down in history for his "last stand" at the
Little Big Horn, 1876. Driving her beautiful horse and carriage, his young bride
called on the Jasper ladies. |
Jasper
Texas Forum JASPER,
William. c.1750-1779.
Rev. hero. S.C. Of obscure parentage, but apparently from the vicinity of Georgetown,
S. C., he enlisted on 7 July '75 in Francis Marion's Co. for service in Wm. Moultrie's
Regt. During the defense of Charleston in 1776 he braved enemy artillery to replace
the flag that had been shot from the parapet of Ft. Sullivan (later Ft. Moultrie).
Given a sword by Gov. Rutledge, he declined a commission on the ground of being
ignorant. As a roving scout under Moultrie, Marion and Lincoln, successively,
he gathered valuable information of British activities. He was killed while planting
the colors of the 2nd S.C. on the Spring Hill redoubt in the assault on Savannah,
9 Oct. '79. An impressive monument has been erected at Savannah in his honor,
and one of the redoubts at Ft. Moultrie was named "Jasper Battery." (James W.
Patton in Dictionary of American Biography, quoted in Boatner's Encyclopedia of
the American Revolution.)
I have found that it is much easier to find
information on Sgt. Jasper than it is on Sgt. John Newton. - Regards, R. Keith
Young Fairfax, VA
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