Old Somervell County Jail
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Started: 1934
Completed: 1934
Quality of Information: Moderate
Marked:
Yes
Site Survival: No Longer Extant
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Description
This old jail served Somervell County for 50 years, before it was closed by the state for not meeting modern jail standards.
Built in 1934, funded as a WPA government project during the Depression, as a replacement for the first county jail built in 1884, located on the same site.
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Old Somervell County Jail
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Old Somervell County Jail
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Historical marker
Source notes
http://www.texasescapes.com/Jails/Somervell-County-Jail-Glen-Rose-Texas.htm
Project originally submitted by Doug Halvorsen on January 16, 2017.
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