Marker Inscription
Politics/Government, Architecture
Historic Place
Mills County Jailhouse
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About this site
Mills County Jailhouse is a historic place in Goldthwaite, Mills County, dedicated in 1979. It is one of 2 historic places documented in Mills County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 38 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.4496, -98.5691 near Goldthwaite. The nearest cataloged historic site is Goldthwaite Eagle (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Mills County Courthouse, Mills County Courthouse, and Confederate Veterans Memorial of Mills County.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2079002994. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Mills County Jail in Goldthwaite is a limestone-and-sandstone building completed in April 1888 by contractors Green and Nichols of Lampasas at a cost of $8,850, from a design by J.B. Dumas. As the county's first public building, it held prisoner cells on the upper floor and the sheriff's offices below, with ironwork by the Diebold Safe and Lock Company. It served into the 1950s and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Sources: historictexas.nettshaonline.orgtxmchc.genealogyvillage.com
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