Avery

 

 

 Bogata

Neil Rozelle was born in 1939 and is a long-time resident of Bogata. When he was between eight and ten years of age there was a one-story wood calaboose located about 100 yards west and south of Main Street and U.S. Highway 271. He described it as having a dirt floor, about 10 x 12 feet in size, and made of 2×4 timbers but he does not remember if they were vertically or horizontally placed. There were no windows in the walls but the wooden door had a small window or opening with metal bars.  He does not know how long it was used as a calaboose but he is pretty certain that it was no longer used as a lockup or jail by the 1950.  W.  J. Corbel was the local Constable when Rozelle was a young boy.  He recalled an incident when a truck driver was arrested and put into the calaboose for drunkenness. Somehow he managed to escape and the next day the building in which he had been incarcerated had been destroyed. The locals believe that the truck driver and his friends did this with their truck.  There are no Sanborn maps for Bogata.

Clarksville

The Sanborn map dated 1885 (Sheet 2) depicts a small one-story wood calaboose in Clarksville. It was located at 213 Cedar Street (block 16) and it occupied the same block as a two-story brick county jail and a wooden jailer’s dwelling. In 1891 (Sheet 1) it was still there but the county jail was now a dwelling and the jailer’s dwelling was not labeled as such. In the same year (Sheet 3) a two-story county jail was now in operation and located at Pecan and Madison streets (block 20). The calaboose was gone in 1896 (Sheet 3). In 1901 (Sheet 5), 1906 (Sheet 3), 1911 (Sheet 5), and 1920 (Sheet 2) a small, one-story ironclad lockup was at 227 Pecan Street on the same block as the county jail.  On the 1920 map it was described as a city jail.   Jim Clark is a member of the Red River County Historical Society and he said that the block where it was located was completely leveled about twenty-five years ago for the construction of a new “Law Enforcement” facility that included a new and modern jail.

Clarksville 1885

Clarksville 1901

Detroit

The Sanborn fire insurance map dated 1899 (Sheet 1) depicts a wood calaboose in the town of Detroit, Texas in block 19 (lot 2), bordered by Memphis, Main, and South Front streets. In 1911 (Sheet 2,) the wood calaboose was gone and a wood lockup was located in block 20 (lot 3) bounded by Memphis, Main, and San Diego streets.  This either represents two separate buildings or the calaboose was moved and referred to the later mappers as a lockup.  The 1911 Sanborn map was the last one available for Detroit.  It is possible that this building is still standing.

Detroit 1899

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Detroit 1911