Clifton Cliff Jail

Blasted from living rock this jail confined many of the bad men who crowed into the district in the boom days. Local tradition says that the first inmate in 1881 was the miner who built the jail. It was contributed ...

The Storey County Jail

Comstock Historical Maker No. 17

This two-story jail was completed in 1877, and featured ten individual cells, each of which had bunk beds and “state of the art” plumbing for the day. Women were housed on the second level and men ...

Old Franklin County Jail

Of Georgian design, this jail was built in 1818 and was in continuous use for 152 years. The third oldest building in the borough, it survived the burning of Chambersburg by Confederate forces during the Civil War.

Marker is at the ...

Court House and Jail

From the 1850s to the 1890s, the lure of gold brought people to the mountains and deserts of Kern County. Mining towns such as Claraville, Havilah and Randsburg sprang up almost overnight.

Although most of the residents of these towns were ...

Old City Jail

Built in 1912, this structure was originally

a simple one-room brick cube with barred

windows an an armored door. It was used

to house offenders for short periods for

fighting, public drunkenness and similar

minor offenses.

In 1928, the City of Pembroke purchased

an 1897- vintage ...

Southern Pacific Railroad Jail

Approximately 3,000 men labored on railroad construction up and over the Tehachapi Mountains in the 1870s.

It took over three years for the line to be completed through Kern County. As the railroad slowly progressed through the county, settlements sprang up ...

1911 Wilkes County Jail

On December 5, 1911, the first person was hanged on the third floor gallows. The hanging occured before the jail was dedicated in January 1912.

Marker is on Jefferson Street 0 miles north of East Court Street, on the left when ...

Williamson County Jail

In continuous use since 1888. Native limestone. Cost $22,000. Replaced 1848 frame jail, at grand jury request. Financed without a bond issue.

French bastille styling, unchanged in remodeling, at cost of $40,000 in 1934.

Marker is on West 4th Street near Main ...

Granite County Jail

The Granite County Jail was constructed in 1896, three years after Granite County was carved from two adjacent counties and Philipsburg made the county seat. The town served as a hub to extensive area mining and, later, ranching. The jail ...

Old Pickens County Jail

This 1906 jail was built to replace the old rock jail that stood behind the courthouse. The rock jail had replaced the first county jail, a two-story log building. Dr. William B. Tate urged the construction of the jail as ...