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Historical Marker:
OLD COUNTY
JAIL
This 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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