The Freestone County Historical Museum will hold a dedication ceremony for its newly obtained corrected 1881 Freestone County Jail marker at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 5.
The original Texas Historical Marker was dedicated on May 7, 1967 ,with 1,000 people estimated to be in attendance for the opening day of the museum.. However, at tht time, the complete history of the old jail was not understood. The jail was thought to be 110 years old at thetime. It was later discovered there was a brick jail building built on this same location in 1857, known as Jail #2. This building was dismantled in 1881 and a new jail was erected on the same location.
It is very interesting that several newspapers recorded in July 1977 that the foundations for the 1857 building had been found when doing excavation work for the Carter Cabin chimney with a photo of Sylvia Childs, who was a long time museum curator, showing off the bricks.
