Old Marathon Jail -- Marathon TX - Retired Prisons on Waymarking.com

The handsome local-stone Marathon Jail has a creepy armless and legless mannequin torso propped up against the bars. It looks like at some point it was a historical attraction, but now it's just forgotten.

The Marathon Jail looks like it dates from the late 19th century.

Some brief history from the city's website: (visit link)

"ATTRACTIONS

Marathon Jail - A windmill located in the middle of Marathon's North First Street served as an early jail for drunkenness and petty crimes. The offender being chained to a leg of the windmill.

Other structures were used to serve as a jail, however, as a result of numerous colorful escapes, it became apparent to the citizens that a better 'Calaboose' was needed. Rocks were then dug from a ledge on the northwest part of town and a jail was built to the south of the old Ritchey store. (This is the waymarked jail -- BMB) Upon completion of the upgrades to the cells in Alpine, the old ones were sent to Marathon.
(Except from the Magnificent Marathon Basin, Annejo P. Wedin 1989)"

Address: SW 2nd St and Ave C Marathon , TX Open to the public: No Hours: none Fees?: none Web link: Not listed

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Date Logged Log   12/26/2016 Benchmark Blasterz visited it