Historical Markers in Texas

Plaza de Carcel, y Casas de Correccion

History·Liberty County·Texas

(Square of the Jail and Houses of Correction) Originally mapped 1831, according to laws of "Coahuila and Texas", then the northernmost state of Mexico. Prison sentences were to be worked out here. By 1885, though, this square was in the mercantile section of town, and the plaza to the east became "Jail Square."

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30.0586, -94.7956

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