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Original Culberson County Jail

  Texas Historical Markers
3rd and Culberson, Van Horn, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 31° 2' 45.39204999996", -104° 50' 11.0311299996"
 
    Texas State
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    In order to provide local law enforcement in the wake of Mexican bandit attacks, Culberson County was organized in 1911. The following year the county commissioners accepted plans for construction of this red brick jail. Although prisoners at times dug through the brick walls, the structure was used until a new courthouse which included a jail was completed in 1964.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Original Culberson County Jail Historical Marker Location Map, Texas