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May 16,
1892
A Bid to build
the calaboose was accepted by the Cameron City Council from a company
called Westmoreland and Mullinax for $262.60. Calaboose was to be accepted
by Mayor A. J. Lewis and City Marshall R. L. Batte. Mayor Lewis later
became Sheriff of Milam County.
The Calaboose is twenty
feet long, ten feet wide, and twelve feet high. Thick wooden walls are
formed by the placement of two-by-four-inch timbers flat on top of each
other. The floor is of similar construction. The two-by-fours are placed
edgewise forming a four-inch wall. There is a door at each end and two
windows, one on each side of the building in both cells. The windows have
two sets of iron bars - a rounded set of twelve that is built into the
facing and a flat set of nine attached on the inside. To keep out the rain
and also to help keep prisoners in, wooden shutters were put on the
outside. There are iron bars on each shutter which served as a lock.
On July 3, 1956 an
ordinance by Councilman Thompson was issued, authorizing the renovation of
the calaboose for use by the city in confinement of prisoners.
The Calaboose was moved to
its present site in 1994, and restored in June of 1998.
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