Marker Inscription
Site of emigrant trail, the frontier military road, and Fort Phantom Hill, founded in 1851 to guard the military road. County created 1858 from Bexar and Bosque counties. Named for Anson Jones (1798-1858), a veteran of San Jacinto, minister to the U.S., Secretary of State and last President of the Texas Republic. Phantom Hill, in 1858-1861 a Butterfield Overland Mail Station, was in 1861-1865 a Civil War patrol point, trying to curb frontier raids by Indians. The county was recreated in 1876, organized 1881. Anson (at first called Jones City) is county seat. (1965)
About this site
Jones County is a historical marker in Anson, Jones County, dedicated in 1936. It is one of 25 historical markers documented in Jones County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 73 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 32.7562, -99.8969 near Anson. The nearest cataloged historic site is Fort Phantom Hill, C.S.A. (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Anson Opera House, First United Methodist Church of Anson, and First Presbyterian Church Building.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5253002844. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
