Details for Shackelford County's First Permanent Jail
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5417004650
Data
| Marker Number | 4650 |
| Atlas Number | 5417004650 |
| Marker Title | Shackelford County's First Permanent Jail |
| Index Entry | Shackelford County's First Permanent Jail |
| Address | S. 2nd Street |
| City | Albany |
| County | Shackelford |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 472391 |
| UTM Northing | 3620595 |
| Subject Codes | jails and prisons |
| Marker Year | 1962 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | Yes |
| Marker Location | South 2nd Street, Albany |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | Medallion & Plate |
| Marker Text | Erected 1877-78 by architects and builders Thomas & Woerner of Fort Worth. Gerard B. Allen of St. Louis furnished ironwork. Initials on many of the native limestone blocks show masons' claims to payment for work. An early prisoner, John Selman, later killed notorious gunman John Wesley Hardin in El Paso. Superseded 1929 by a new jail, this became vault for archives (1940-68) of playwright Robert Nail. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1962. |