Old 1832 Jail

This building, erected in 1832, replaced an 1824 log structure and served as jail and sheriff’s residence until ca. 1879.

A scaffold erected just east of the jail was the scene of the last hanging in Parke County.

Marker is at the ...

The "Old Jail"

In the old Carthage jail which stands one block south of here, Joseph and Hyrum Smith, Prophet and Patriarch of the Mormon Church were killed by a mob on June 27, 1844. Two years later the Mormons withdrew from Illinois, ...

Old Atascosa County Jail

County officials rented a small Jourdanton house for a jail in 1911 after the county seat was moved here from Pleasanton in 1910. A proposal to build a new jail with cells from the old Pleasanton structure was rejected and ...

Bosley Hall/The Old Baltimore Jail

It is ironic that local executives turned the Old Baltimore County Jail, which once housed convicted felons during the 18th and 19th centuries, into an office building.

Still showing off its pre-Civil War prison architecture, visitors to the city of ...

The Old Jail

Now a museum, this 1893 red brick jail building contains the cells where black and white prisoners were once confined on the second floor. The central tower was used for hangings as late as 1916. Documents, photographs, and memorabilia are ...

The Old Jail

The old jail, actually the county's fourth, was completed in 1875 at a cost of $38,600. The Victorian Italianate design made it a distinctive structure. The front facade is composed of 2,000 pound limestone blocks. The jail housed inmates ...

Old Town Jail

1883

The town of Georgetown built this small stone jail in the summer of 1883, using steel cells donated by the county. Built at a cost of $700, the stone jail was known for awhile as the "Hotel de Barr," after ...

Currituck County Old Jail

Thursday the 31st December 1767

"On motion the following Bills were ordered to be read ... A Bill to impower the justices of Currituck County to build a prison pillary and stocks in the said county on the lot were the ...

Quitman County’s Old Jail

The original jail was a wooden structure built in 1859. It was replaced in 1891 with this brick structure which is typical of rural jails built during this period in southeast Alabama and southwest Georgia counties. The commissioners in 1890 ...

Mariposa County’s Old Stone Jail

This 33 X 26 foot structure was built in 1858 from granite blocks quarried near Mormon Bar at a cost of 14,744.00 by J.O. Lovejoy. It originally had two stories and a gallows at the east end. In 1892 a ...