Sutter Creek Jail

The jail was built in 1908 to replace the original jail that was destroyed by a fire started when an unidentified inmate set his mattress on fire and burned to death. Sutter Creek and Amador County shared the cost of ...

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 ...

The Jail Tree

From 1863 to 1890

Outlaws were chained to this tree for lack of a Hoosegow- -

Escapes were unknown

Marker is at the intersection of North Tegner Street and Wickenburg Way, on the right on North Tegner Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Benson Jail

1938 - 2006

These doors and windows were used to build a jail on the Northwest corner of Huachuca & 5th Street during April – May 1938. Needing jail material, Benson obtained approval to remove cell doors & windows from the ...

Mohave County Jail

Built 1910

This building has been placed on

The National Register of

Historic Places

By the United States Department of the Interior

Mohave County Jail

Built 1910

Noteworthy as one of the first cast-in-place concrete structures in Kingman, the county jail building was constructed in 1910. Metal ...

Chattahoochee County Jail

Side 1:

This jail is situated on property that was purchased soon after the county was created on February 13, 1854. Mr. Asbury Bryan was paid $1,250 for the original two-story log jail that was completed by July 20, 1855, under ...

Jail - 1848

This building with the West addition served as the Gaston County Jail until 1911 when the County seat was moved to Gastonia. The Sheriff and his family had living quarters on the first floor. The second floor still contains the ...

Sheriff's Residence and Jail

[ Side ‘One’]

Vanderburgh County formed, Evansville named county seat 1818. This castle-like structure was completed 1890 for county’s fourth jail and second sheriff’s residence. Stone exterior has step-gables, projecting turrets, crenellated roof lines, simulated portcullis, and central, rounded tower. Tunnel ...

Darlington County Jail

Side A

This building, a New Deal project of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Public Works Administration (PWA), was built in 1937 at a cost of $60,000. Called “one of the most modern jails in the South,” it was designed by Rock ...