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Culberson County was organized in 1911 to provide local law enforcement in the wake of Mexican bandit attacks. The following year, county commissioners accepted plans for construction of this red brick jail. Although prisoners at times dug through the brick walls, the structure was used until a new courthouse that included a jail was completed in 1964.
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