​San Jacinto
​County Jail

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Marker Text: Noted for rare but never used hangman's trap. Second jail for San Jacinto County which was organized 1871, this structure was built in 1887 by L. T. Noyes of Houston. Later, the Southern Structural Steel Company of San Antonio installed cells and the unusual execution device. That firm also built annex in 1911.
​   In 1915 San Jacinto County's frame courthouse burned. When a new brick courthouse was built a quarter-mile to the southwest, axis of the town shifted from area of the jail, which still serves its official role. (1971)

Marker No: 7669

Aluminum 18 x28 Subject Marker

National Register of Historic Places

Geographic: 30.596420, -95.128487

Location: 200 Slade Street, Coldspring