Blooming Grove

The Sanborn fire insurance map dated 1900 (Sheet 2) depicts a wood lockup in Blooming Grove, Texas. It was located in city block 5 near the corner of Fordyce and 2^nd streets facing an alley.  It is also depicted on the 1905 Sanborn map (Sheet 2) in the same location.  That year the town was apparently larger because Fordyce had been renamed South Fordyce Street. The lockup was still there in 1910 (Sheet 3).  In May of 1921 (Sheet 2) there was a one-story brick jail in approximately the same area.  Block 5 had been changed to Block I and the jail was in city lot 17 in front of a small ironclad building that is labelled Fire Department.   According to Beth Nemeth at City Hall the brick jail is no longer there.

Blooming Grove 1900

Blooming Grove 1921

Dawson

The Sanborn fire insurance map dated 1921 (Sheet 2) depicts a small ironclad jail in the town of Dawson, Texas.  It was located in City Block 17 (Lot 13).  This block had been divided by an alley that ran east-west and the calaboose was in the approximate center of the lower half of the block.  According to the City Secretary it is no longer standing.

Dawson 1921

Kerens 

The Sanborn map dated 1940 (Sheet 2) depicts a city jail with two rooms in the public square (block 74) on the same block as the water plant and fire station and behind the fire department at 226 East Street in the center of block 4.  This was the only map available.  It was not depicted at that location on the 1921 map (Sheet 2).

Kilgore

The Sanborn map dated 1932 (Sheet 5) depicts a jail at 519 North Kilgore across from the Louisiana Iron & Supply Co. at 507 North Commerce.  In 1936 (Sheet 5), it was still there but had been expanded to include an office.  The iron company was gone.  In 1950 (Sheet 5) it was gone and replaced by a jail in city block 118 next to the fire station and city hall.  It was in an alley that separated it from block 117.

 

Rice

The Sanborn map dated 1921 (Sheet 2) depicts a very small one-story ironclad jail in Rice, Texas. It was located facing an alley in the approximate center of city block 17.

Rice 1921