Marble Jailhouse
Gunnison County
The Marble Jailhouse was built in 1901 to accommodate a rapidly growing population drawn to the area by the economic activity of the Marble quarry.
Marble Jailhouse
The jailhouse became particularly useful in accommodating those found guilty of bootlegging after Marble voted to become a dry town in 1908. The jailhouse is a good example of a wood, one-room jail with an intact steel cell-block built at the turn of the twentieth century.