Jourdan Campbell

The Tobey Ranch that Jourdan Campbell and T. H. Zanderson bought did not stop at Jourdanton. Charlotte was carved from the same ranch, and J. F. Edwards laid out its townsite in 1910 as a wagon wheel, with streets as spokes. Dr. Charles Simmons, who helped develop the county, named Charlotte, Imogene and Christine for his daughters. Campbell's father, John Campbell, had already founded Campbellton. Jourdan Campbell sat on the first board of the Artesian Belt Railroad, which ran through Poteet and Jourdanton to Christine.

What the plaque says

Jourdan Campbell JOURDAN CAMPBELL JOURDAN CAMPBELL (1867-1938) AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO ATASCOSA COUNTY BY 1870; HIS FATHER JOHN CAMPBELL FOUNDED CAMPBELLTON. JOURDAN MARRIED ALICE LOUISE MARR IN 1897 AND THE COUPLE HAD EIGHT CHILDREN. JOURDAN BECAME COUNTY COMMISSIONER IN THE 1890s, AND IN 1907 WITH COL. T. H. ZANDERSON BOUGHT THE 33,760 ACRE TOBEY RANCH, PART OF WHICH WOULD BECOME JOURDANTON. ONCE THE TOWN WAS FORMED, CAMPBELL WAS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE BANK AND LOBBIED FOR A RAILROAD. JOURDANTON BECAME ATASCOSA COUNTY SEAT IN 1910. CAMPBELL ALSO SUPPORTED A 65-MILE HARDTOP HIGHWAY PROJECT LINKING JOURDANTON TO THE PRINCIPAL COMMUNITIES OF ATASCOSA COUNTY. JOURDAN CAMPBELL WAS THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND JOURDANTON'S CREATION, PROSPERITY AND GROWTH. 175 YEARS OF TEXAS INDEPENDENCE * 1836-2011

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Atascosa County Courthouse — 0.7 mi
  The only surviving Mission Revival courthouse in Texas, built in 1912-13 on Jourdanton's town circle after a county seat vote that some residents still call a theft.
• Longhorn Museum — 5.5 mi
  Atascosa County in one roadside museum: longhorn-and-mustang ranching, a moved railroad depot and caboose, a horse-drawn hearse and the town that calls itself the birthplace of the cowboy.

More markers nearby

• Jourdanton — steps away
• Ralph Roy Smith — steps away
• Atascosa County — 0.7 mi
• Jourdanton I.S.D — 1.1 mi