Jasper (Texas)

Jasper is a city in the Deep East region of Texas.

Understand
Jasper gained a measure of notoriety when an African-American man was dragged to his death behind a pick-up truck in a gruesome lynching in 1998. Much of the town subsequently unified to express revulsion for the crime and opposition to the racial hatred that motivated it.

Get in

 * US 96 south from San Augustine or north from Kirbyville and Beaumont
 * US 190, about 100 miles east of Huntsville