Eakly Jail

August 26, 20201 min read1 comment

City/Town: • Eakly

Location Class: • Jail

Built: • N/A | Abandoned: • N/A

Status: • Abandoned

Photojournalist: • Michael Schwarz • Emily Cowan

This type of concrete pour-in-place method calaboose was perfected in the early 1900s. With Eakly’s population and community becoming a stable township around the 1910’s-1920’s this is presumably when the jail was built.
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Emily Cowan

Emily is a two-time published author of "Abandoned Oklahoma: Vanishing History of the Sooner State" and "Abandoned Topeka: Psychiatric Capital of the World". With over two hundred published articles on our websites. Exploring since 2018 every aspect of this has become a passion for her. From educating, fighting to preserve, writing, and learning about history there is nothing she would rather do.

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