Historical Marker
Plaza de Carcel, y Casas de Correccion
Marker installed: 1968
(Square of the Jail and Houses of Correction)
Originally mapped 1831, according to laws of "Coahuila and Texas", then the northernmost state of Mexico. Prison sentences were to be worked out here. By 1885, though, this square was in the mercantile section of town, and the plaza to the east became "Jail Square.".