Famed Texas town is selling its historic jail beginning at just $5,000


The old county jail in the West Texas hometown of prolific Pulitzer Prize- winning novelist Larry McMurtry of Lonesome Dove fame is on the market for a minimum of $5,000. No, those aren’t typos — you can conceivably buy a historic former jail for a steal. The former Archer County Jail in the county seat of Archer City (population 1,744) dates back to 1910. The county used the three-story sandstone structure as a jail until…

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