The Sentinel jail is a tiny jail that looks a bit different from other Oklahoma tiny jails. It features thicker walls than the typical calaboose, two cells that have steel doors, and two small steel barred windows. It has a slanted roof and was constructed of concrete around ~1915. Although a “fancy” modern jail it was seldom used, a local newspaper reporting in 1917 that the jail had been without a tenant for so long that the “mind of the oldest inhabitant runneth not that far back.”
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I enjoyed your article on Slick, Oklahoma. Graduated in 1960. Left Port School, Oklahoma in 1953. Presently living in Bristow, Ok.
Do you have any information on Port School, near Sentinel, Oklahoma