Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-01-29
AN 0LD LANDMARK PASSES AWAY WITH REMOVAL OF OLD POLICE STA.
 TON. Once Occupied as Residence, But Did Duty as Station for Six
 teen Years.

With the passing of the old police station on State street one of the city's oldest landmarks gives place to the ruthless hand of progress. The cid building has been sold and torn Gown, the purchaser using the mate rial to construct shack out in Hobo Een. It was sold for the insignificant sum of $11.
 The old police station must not be confused with the old fire stat on which still stands on the corner of State and Second, another of the land. marks of Pine Bluff However, it will be only a matter of time when this building, too, will be sold and torn 1.own, and the time promises to be short. The city council has already ordered it's sale.
 The history of the old police sta ton which has just been torn down, aEte-dates the memory of the present Senerat on, but it can be safely assert ed that it is one of the very oldest buildings in the city. A small, one. 1 story frame structure, it has yet with stood the elements and other adverse conditions, until it's history has be- come closely identified with that of the old bricks on Barraque which have long been pointed out as the two most notable landmarks of the town, one on Barraque just opposite the court square and the other on Parraque and Alabama.
 Little is known by the present gen eration of the old police station. It was formerly occupied by George Hay i cock as residence, but he subse Gnently moved out of it, and it was l then that the city came into pos session of the property, using it for a time as a police station. Even in l those days. which dates back to six i teen years ago, the building was con ] sidered an old one, and the roof was ] in such bad repair that the police of fee was frequently, in times past moved out of it into more comfort able quarters. Certain it is that the house was built long before the ole ] fire station was erected, for it was be coming known as an old buildins when the fire station was erected ir ] 1878.
 The building has been uz A for "a rious purposes, mostly, however, as a police station, the police headquar ters being established there for time only to be removed to other quarters, then back into the old sta tion. This was kept up for years, un til the station was finally located i, the building on Barraque just oppo site the present city hall.
 The money handled in the ol( lp lding would make any man fee lch During the time it was used a! a police station, thousands upol thousands Of dollars changed hands from the lawbreakers into the cit, coifers. Many different chiefs of DC Ice had their headquarters there il time past, but not of their own voli tion, for the old shack has alway 1Gen unpopular because of it's bat condition.
 In a short time it is probable Ina the whole block on which the old pc a5 statien was located will be clear ea of the old debris now on it, in elaline the old fire station and the olt
 ijv jail. the latter of which is bull bieA. Both houses are wrecks md are as uns ehtly as they are uafi so1 eeeapancy. The council has ol
 ta4 the ala Eaildings sold, and th c.lv thing needlul to clear the blec' af them is to find purchaser Tn whc @ants hem can perhaps SC cure a bargain