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COLEMAN COUNTY JAIL
1890

Coleman, Texas

Coleman County

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TX - 1884 Coleman County Courthouse and Jail
1884 Coleman County courthouse and the 1890 Jail
Postcard courtesy THC

Historical Marker: On NE corner of courthouse square

COLEMAN COUNTY JAIL

Second county jail. (First was a small 1879 structure on lawn of courthouse.) Erected in 1890, this building is a good example of Victorian jail architecture with some traces of Romanesque Revival. Belting at ground and second floors a notable detail.

Lower floor contains living quarters for the jailer. Upper floor houses both maximum and minimum security cells.

Only one person, a convicted murderer, was ever hanged here.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1970

Coleman county jail, Texas
Coleman County Jail today
Photo courtesy Terry Jeanson, May 2005


Coleman County jail, Coleman Texas
Coleman County Jail
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, February 2003


Coleman TX - courthouse, jail & Commercial Ave.
Commercial Avenue looking north, showing courthouse and jail
Click on image to enlarge
Old postcard courtesy Dan Whatley Collection


TX - Coleman County Courthouse in 1940
Coleman County courthouse & Jail
1940 Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/


TX - 1884 Coleman County Courthouse  old photo
The 1884 Coleman County courthouse
1939 Photo Courtesy TXDoT

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