Saint Jo: Stonewall Saloon Museum

Saint Jo: Stonewall Saloon Museum

  • <p>Stone building with swinging doors and a sign saying Stonewall Saloon 1873</p>
  • <p>Building interior hallway with photographs and artifacts and a sign saying St. Jo, Texas</p>
  • <p>Cattle drive into Saint Jo, 1920s (Stonewall Saloon Museum)</p> <p>Cattle being driven down a gravel paved road lined with barb wire fencing</p>
  • <p>Saint Jo in the 1920s (Stonewall Saloon Museum)</p>

The saloon is one of the most recognizable institutions of the cowboy era – even if it has been exaggerated by Hollywood. Saunter into the Stonewall Saloon in Saint Jo, and you’ll feel like it’s 1880 all over again. Tennessean I.H. Boggess built the saloon – Saint Jo’s first building – in 1873 to serve the trail drivers who often came through town. When the county went dry in 1897, the saloon went dry as well – housing offices, a bank, and now a museum. The Stonewall Saloon Museum showcases the original bar, tables as they may have been set up on opening day in 1873, and various relics from the town’s cowboy history.

Stonewall Saloon Museum

  • Hours: Friday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Sunday, 1 – 5 p.m.
  • Admission: None
  • 100 Main St., Saint Jo, TX
  • 940-995-7193
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