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Old Freestone Jail |
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Main & Hall St., Fairfield,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
31° 43' 33.015648",
-96° 9' 29.237112"
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Texas State
Historical Marker |
Built 1857 to meet fortress-like specifications: interior walls are 18 inches thick, outer walls, 30 inches. Constructed of brick and oak timbers. Prison, upstairs, had floor of thick oak planks, with subfloor of iron. Jailer lived on ground floor. Folklore says the notorious gunman John Wesley Hardin once spent a night here. This was used as a jail until 1913. It became a museum in 1967. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1967
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
Old Freestone Jail Historical Marker Location Map, Texas
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