Return to Love's Lookout, Jacksonville, Texas, (Cherokee County) USA
November 2nd 2019 Wesley Love owned much land North of Jacksonville Texas. In 1904 he planted a six hundred acre (640 acres is a square mile) peach orchard. Love died in 1925. In 1934 the City of Jacksonville purchased forty two acres of Love's land in two locations; one became Love's Lookout. After the purchase Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal spent much money developing the lookout including an access road to the lo
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