Jellico

Jellico took its name from a ranch, which took it from Tennessee. The Handbook of Texas says the community was named for the Jellico Ranch, where Robert Emmett Wilson's general store stood, and that early settlers had come from Jellico, Tennessee. A first post office application, using the name Burr, was rejected in 1897. When cotton and cattle prices fell in 1907, Wilson, who had cosigned a number of debts, sold his steam gin and mill and opened a cattle dipping vat. The post office had closed in 1903. Jellico Corners, built in 1984, keeps the name.

What the plaque says

Jellico Robert Emmett Wilson came with his family to this area during the 1880s and built a general store near this site. The name Jellico was chosen for the community when a post office was established in 1898. The town was named after a town in Tennessee from which some of the settlers had immigrated. By 1895, Jellico had a cotton gin, blacksmith shop, grist mil, syrup press, and school. The town began to decline when cotton prices fell in 1907. Wilson's General Store closed in 1912, and the school was consolidated into another district. (1985)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Worth Stockyards — 14 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.
• Tarrant County Courthouse — 15 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 17 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 17 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.

More markers nearby

• White's Chapel United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi
• Bransford — 3.1 mi
• Bourland Cemetery — 3.3 mi
• Dr. Lilburn Howard Colley — 4.0 mi