STATE HISTORICAL SURVEY COMMITTEE
OFFICIAL HISTORICAL MEDALLION


OLD FREESTONE JAIL
  
  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