Just Visitin’ Old Texas Jails
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(* Numbers match a location map in book.)
1. Albany: Shackelford County Jail (1878-1929) Old Jail Art Center
2. Archer City: Archer County Jail (1910-1974) Archer County Historical Jail Museum
3. Austin: Travis County Jail & Courthouse(1931-1990) Training Facility/Haunted Jail Tour
4. Bandera: Bandera County Jail (1881-1938) Old Bandera Jail Museum
5. Bastrop: Bastrop County Jail (1892-1974) City Offices & Special Tours
6. Belville: Austin County Jail (1896-1982) Austin County Jail Museum
7. Blanco: Blanco County Jail (1877-1890) Historical Public Building
8. Boerne: Kendall County Jail (1884-1986) City & County Offices & Special Tours
9. Brady: McCulloch County Jail 1910-1975) Heart of Tex Museum
10 Brownwood: Brown County Jail (1902-1981) Brown County Museum of History
11. Buffalo Gap: Taylor County Jail & Courthouse (1879-1883) Buffalo Gap Historic Village
12. Calvert: Robertson County Jail (1870-1879) Hammond House B&B-Restaurant
13. Cameron: Milam County Jail (1895-1975) Milam County Historical Jail Museum
14. Carthage: Panoloa County Jail(1891-1953) LaGrone Family History Center and Museum
15. Denison: Grayson County’s Two Rare Jails (ca. 1877-1930) at Frontier Village
16. Edinburg: Hidalgo County Jail (1910-1922) at Museum of South Texas History
17. Edna: Jackson County Jail (1922-1981) Texana Museum and Otto & Virginia Lawrence
Children’s Museum & Part of the La Salle Odyssey
18. Fairfield: Freestone County Jail (1879-1913) Freestone County Museum
19. Floresville: Wilson County Jail (1887-1974) Wilson County Jailhouse Museum
20. Fort Stockton: Old Fort Stockton Guardhouse (1867-1886) and Pecos County Jail (1883-
1975)
21. Gatesville: Coryell County Jail (1855-1875) at Coryell County Museum
22. Gonzales: Gonzales County Jail (1887-1975) Chamber of Commerce and Museum
23. Granbury: Hood County Jail (1885-1978) Old Jail Museum
24. Hamilton: Hamilton County Jail (1938-1990) Hamilton County Museum
25. Helena: Old Karnes County Jail (1854?-1893?) Ghost Town with Historical Museum
26. Henrietta: Clay County Jail (1890-1973) Clay County Jail Museum – Heritage Center
27.Hico City Jail two sites (1856?-1928) Jailhouse Library & cell at Billy the Kid Museum
28. Hillsboro: Hill County Jail (1893-1983) Hill County Cell Block Museum
29. Kirbyville City Jail (1910-1954) Calaboose Museum
30. La Grange: Fayette County Jail (1883-1985) Chamber of Commerce and Museum
31. Llano: Llano County Jail (1895-1981) Old Red Top
32. Lockhart: Caldwell County Jail (1909-1983) Caldwell County Museum & Visitor Center
33. Mobeetie: Wheeler County Jail (1885-1907) Mobeetie Jail Museum
34. Monahans: Ward County Jail (1928-1932) as Million Barrell Museum
35. Palo Pinto: Palo Pinto County Jail (1882-1941) Pioneer Museum
36. Pearsall: Frio County Jails (1872 and 1884-1967) Frio Pioneer Jail Museum
37. Quanah: Hardeman County Jail (1891-1973) Hardeman County Historical Museum
38. San Antonio: Bexar County Jail (1878-1962) Comfort Inn Alamo River Walk
39. San Elizario: First El Paso County Jail (1850) Jail Museum on Historic District Tour
40. San Marcos: Hays County Jails (1873 and 1885-?) Calaboose African American
History Museum and second jail slated for renovation
41. Silverton: Briscoe County Jail (1894-1972) Old Jail Museum
42. Wharton: Wharton County Jail (1888-1938) 20th Century Technology Museum
JAILS WAITING (not open to visitors at this time)
43. Beeville: Bee County Jail (1874)
44. Burnet: Burnet County Jail (1884)
45. Centerville: Leon County Jails (1887, 1913, 1974)
46. Channing: Hartley County Jail (ca. 1900)
47. Dallas City Jail (1908)
48. Fort Worth: Tarrant County Criminal Justice Building (1918)
49. Fredericksburg: Gillespie County Jail (1885)
50. Georgetown: Williamson County Jail (1888)
51. Goldthwaite: Mills County Jail (1888)
52. Mason: Mason County Jail (1895
53. McKinney: Collin County Prison (1880)
54. Ozona: Crockett County Jail (1892)
55. Richmond: Fort Bend County Jail (1896)
56. Waxahachie: Ellis County Jail (1881)
JAIL PRETENDING (never really a jail; cell moved in about 1989)
57. Selma: once City Hall
JAIL RESIDENCE (home of photographer, Wyman Meinzer)
58. Benjamin: Knox County Jail
AND JAILS ABANDONED (a sampling)
59. Kent, 60. Moore, 61. New Boston
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