The Calaboose - Elsberry, MO
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YoSam.
N 39° 09.998 W 090° 46.916
15S E 691624 N 4337611
The Elsberry Historic Preservation has an annual fund raiser that the call "Hoosegows, Calabooses, Squirrel Cages" very funny.
Waymark Code: WMVJ5A
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 04/24/2017
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County of stie: Lincoln County
Location of site: 104 N. 2nd St. @ DuBois St., Elsberry
"The exact date of the construction of the Old Calaboose is not known but is believed to be 1896. In the 1960s Margaret Ann Watts of The Elsberry Democrat researched the origins of the stone building by interviewing some of Elsberry's oldest residents. She found that a stonemason came to Elsberry to build the Calaboose, put the foundation under the present Methodist Church, and put a foundation under the house that is now the Sacred Heart Rectory. The church's history shows that the first church was a red brick building erected in 1881. Because of a defective foundation, this building was unsafe and was torn down in 1896 and the foundation for the new church was built in the fall of the same year. The stones in this foundation have the same cutting marks and are the same size as those in the walls of the Old Calaboose." ~ The Great River Road (link below)
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