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I LOOOOOOOVE
this website – just love it!
Because of your excellent Milam County
Jail Ghost story I went to the Milam
County Jail and you’re right! There is most definitely a ghost in there! We
were the only visitors there that day, yet the entire time we were there, we kept
hearing footsteps, sometimes pacing, sometimes RACING, up and down the spiral
staircase and around and around the cell blocks. My friend and I fully expected
to come to a face-to-face encounter with other visitors, what with all the racket
going on in there, but like I said, it turned out we were the only visitors there
at that time.
This Milam County Jail visit has led me to other jail
museums. I have now been to so many jail museums in Texas I can’t keep count,
but the catalyst for all these jail museum visits was most definitely reading
about your Milam County Jail Ghost story.
There is an EXCELLENT jail
museum in Brady, TX. Here is
a wonderful and informative link for the McCullough County Jail:
http://www.bradytx.com/sites2/museum.html
There is another jail museum in Carthage
Texas, the Panola County jail of 1891. Here’s a link for this one:
http://www.carthagetexas.com/historical/1891jail.htm
It was your own Gonzales
County Courthouse: Legend of the Courthouse Clock that led me to visit the
most excellent Gonzales
Old Jail Museum. Here’s a link for that one: http://www.gonzalestexas.com/attractions.htm
I do believe that place is haunted too.
Next I uncovered a jail museum
in La Grange – the Fayette
County Jail Museum and La Grange Chamber of Commerce are housed together in
the old jail building.
Here’s a link for that one:
http://www.lagrangetx.org/visitor/adayinlagrange.htm
The jail museum in Lockhart
I have visited as well. That place is haunted too! It seems so many of these old
jail museums are haunted.
The museum at Fort
Clark Springs is the Guardhouse Museum, which I didn’t realize until I went
there and actually walked inside of the museum, that Guardhouse translates into
Jail. http://www.fortclark.com/museum/index.htm This is a MOST EXCELLENT jail
museum if I ever saw one!
The last one I want to mention is Fort Martin
Scott in Fredericksburg.
http://www.fortmartinscott.com There isn’t much left of this fort, presently there
are about 5 buildings on the site of the old fort. Four out of five buildings
are replicas. The lone building with the distinction of being original is the
Guardhouse. You can walk inside the Guardhouse at Fort Martin Scott. It is the
old jail, it’s very old (it was included on a map drawn in 1853), and still intact.
So, that’s another excellent early jail example that is open to the public. Fort
Martin Scott does not charge a dime to visit their site.
It was because
of your website, Texas Escapes, that I first started going to jail museums and
I am an absolute FANATIC about it! I hope you will find these links useful. Thank
you for letting me share some of my jail museum stories with you.
- Shannan Yarbrough, Fredericksburg Chamber Assistant, March 11, 2005
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