LIVE OAK COUNTY JAIL

Oakville, Texas

The Oakville Jail Building

Julia Dunks recently did a Master's thesis on this jail building in Oakville. She is an architectural graduate student at UT-San Antonio. (It is not the courthouse, which was torn down about 1941.) She said:

The Oakville jail was built in 1887 of native sandstone, building served as the Live Oak County jail until 1919 when the county seat was moved to George West.

In 1937 the late Slim Rosebrock paid the county $1000 for the courthouse and jail. Because of the poor condition of the courthouse, it was demolished. - Mary R. Johnson, Museum Director of Live Oak County, September 11, 2003