Kentucky-born Henry C. Jacobs donated land, surveyed a town, and advocated for its selection as the Shackelford County seat in late 1874. Albany was a supply stop on the western cattle trail during the late 1860s and early 1870s. The Texas Central Railroad arrived in 1881, bringing population growth, with a further boom following the discovery of oil in the county in 1926. The courthouse square is centered in the original nine-square grid, but after the railroad crossed the grid diagonally on the northeast, it generated a second, angled grid. A third expansion to the northeast repeated the original orientation.
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