....... I live in what was reputedly a boardinghouse/brothel and my Illinois High School room mate owns an old adobe stage stop across the street .... We don't aim to be boring during our winters in Tombstone, Arizona ....
(Tina, center, showing family some jail history)
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In 2006 the jail was in danger of folding back into the landscape, vandalized and graffiti defaced. Last year my sister, Tina had an opportunity to purchase the property. Since it was close to the edge of her land, she bought it and decided to restore it.
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The Gleeson Jail was built in 1910 when the town was a booming Arizona mining town.
Now it is a ghost town.
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Today the Jail looks much like it did in it's heyday, both inside and out.
...The Sheriff just stepped out....
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She even managed to track down and find the strap iron door from the second Gleeson Jail, just previous to this one.
Gleeson didn't have a newspaper, but neighboring Courtland did and it carried Gleeson news and happenings. You can read all the news from the area between 1910 and 1918 in the Arizonan. One of my ancestral relatives, Steve Bertoglio, was reported to have bought a brand new Reo in the pages of the paper.
How cool is that!! I am very glad Tina was able to restore a piece of history like that.
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