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Historical
Marker Text:OLD
COUNTY JAILThis
structure was built about 1850 of adobe bricks (sun-dried mud and reeds) and cottonwood
logs around steel cell blocks. It served as official county jail 1850-66 and 1868-73,
when San Elizario was the
first and then third El Paso county seat. It housed both jail ("carcel" in Spanish)
and courtroom ("juzgado"). According to legend, William Bonney, famed outlaw Billy
the Kid, freed the only man ever to escape from this jail, his cohort Melquiades
Seguro.
Recorded
Texas Historic Landmark - 1970 |
Old
El Paso County jail historic marker
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, December 2005 | |
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