FIRST - Permanent Public Building - Canadian, TX
Posted by: 
YoSam.
N 35° 54.743 W 100° 23.005
14S E 375174 N 3975114
Being Texas, of course it is going to be a jail.
Waymark Code: WMJ93G
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/13/2013
Views: 3
Marker Erected by: State Historical Survey Committee
Date Marker Erected: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1970
County of Marker: Hemphill County
Marker Number: 2434
Location of Marker: On the old Jail wall, 4th St. & Percell St., courthouse lawn, Canadian.
THC Marker Text:
Built in 1890, first permanent public building in both town of Canadian and Hemphill County. Erected under administration of E. E. Polly, first county judge.
Ironically, deception plagued construction of this jail, as building contracts were found to be fraudulent and citizens took legal action all the way to the Texas Supreme Court (1889).
In mid-1920s, jail held outlaws from notorious oil boom town of Borger (65 miles southwest).
I know the THC Atlas listing shows it as being located at 5th & Main. That is the front SW corner of the court house itself, and a huge veterans memorial is bing built there. This jail is behind the courthouse. Go around back on Percell St. and you will see it.
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