Tombstone’s Jails Tombstone’s first jail or lockup was an adobe structure on Fremont St. near the one built in 1882 that stands there today...

Locations of the offices and jails in Tombstone before the completion of the county courthouse and city hall in 1882 are difficult to pin down as Tombstone was a town tents, shacks and even wickiups in those first months of its existence and was in a constant state of transition. It may be of interest, that the first Tombstone jail, erected by who first discovered silver, leading to the fou