Well, a project finally took me to Haswell, CO. Some of you may know that Intel named its latest processor chip after the town.
IntelÛªs newest processor named after small Colorado town of Haswell
But what you may or may not know is that the brag to have the smallest jail in the Nation:
It's also smaller than the Texaco Station, and the Post Office (also pictured below).
I wish I had a better camera, and its hard to see how the picture even comes out on the iphone when you're out there. But that's what I got.
Tom Adams, post: 373720, member: 7285 wrote: Well, a project finally took me to Haswell, CO. Some of you may know that Intel named its latest processor chip after the town.
IntelÛªs newest processor named after small Colorado town of HaswellBut what you may or may not know is that the brag to have the smallest jail in the Nation:
It's also smaller than the Texaco Station, and the Post Office (also pictured below).
I wish I had a better camera, and its hard to see how the picture even comes out on the iphone when you're out there. But that's what I got.
I know of a couple that would give it a run for smallest jail.
Here is our jail, or actually it is called the Hoosegow. It hasn't been used in a few years. Quite a few years.
Since this picture was taken, the building has been moved to the yard of the Masonic Lodge and is being "rebuilt".
James
JaRo, post: 374172, member: 292 wrote: Here is our jail, or actually it is called the Hoosegow. It hasn't been used in a few years. Quite a few years.
James
Hmmm....that one looks smaller than the Haswell Jail. Maybe a Hoosegow is a kind of different classification.....
edilt: looked it up. from Merriam Websters:
In Spanish, juzgado means "panel of judges, courtroom." The word is based on the Spanish past participle of juzgar, meaning "to judge," which itself was influenced by Latin judicare-a combination of jus, "right, law," and dicere, "to decide, say." When English speakers of the American West borrowed juzgado in the early 1900s, they recorded it the way they heard it: hoosegow. They also associated the word specifically with the jail that was usually in the same building as a courthouse. Today, hoosegow has become slang for any place of confinement for lawbreakers.
Maybe since Haswell declared theirs was the smallest in the Nation, that declaration made it so.
This one is pretty small too;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_Jail
I did a lot of work in that area a few years ago.
Loyal
Ours is big but they wouldn't let me take my camera so I don't have any pics 😉
I do have one from the Yuma Territorial Prison somewhere though.
