Ringgold Calaboose - Ringgold, TX
N 33° 49.352 W 097° 56.716
14S E 597607 N 3742978
The old Ringgold calaboose stands on an empty piece of property in what used to be downtown Ringgold. You'll find it at the back of the lot along Loop 19, between 5th St and Hanson Rd.
Waymark Code: WM128J3
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/29/2020
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Unfortunately, as of this posting, the Tiny Texas Jails website is offline. However, the work upon which it's based is William E. Moore's "The Texas Calaboose and Other Forgotten Jails", which has nice color photographs and brief histories of many of Texas's surviving calabooses. This is one of the few remnants of downtown Ringgold, and Moore notes that this calaboose was constructed with stone and concrete (the roof). It occupies eighty-three square feet, with walls a foot thick and a dirt floor. Once located in front of it was the McCall Company hardware store, who held the key to the calaboose. When that store burned in 1939, the key was seemingly lost. Moore says that the door is missing, but there is a metal door on a post sitting on the floor, with a board that may have been a bench. There are two windows with bars on the south and east sides of the calaboose, and a hole in the wall at the southeast corner may have been used for ventilation.
Address:
Loop 19
Ringgold, TX USA
76261
Open to the public: Yes
Hours:
Daylight hours
Fees?:
None
Web link: Not listed
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