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Historic Place
Old McCulloch County Jail
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About this site
Old McCulloch County Jail is a historic place in Brady, McCulloch County, dedicated in 1975. It is one of 2 historic places documented in McCulloch County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 29 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.1353, -99.3361 near Brady. The nearest cataloged historic site is McCulloch County (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include General Ben McCulloch, C.S.A., McCulloch County Jail, and McCulloch County Courthouse.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2075002073. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Old McCulloch County Jail in Brady is a three-story red-brick Richardsonian Romanesque building erected in 1910 by the Southern Structural Steel Co. of San Antonio, with living quarters on the first floor and cells above. It replaced an 1878 jail and served until 1974, when the nonprofit Heart of Texas Historical Museum bought it for $5 and converted it into a museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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