Randolph County Jail

Confining the "Bogus State Sheriff"

(Preface):On April 20, 1863, Confederate Gens. William E. “Grumble” Jones and John D. Imboden began a raid from Virginia through present-day West Virginia against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Taking separate routes, they later reported that ...

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 ...

Second Yadkin County Jail

c. 1892

Second Yadkin County Jail

c. 1892

Has Been Placed on the

National Register of Historic Places

by the United Stated Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Hemlock Avenue and Van Buren Street, on the left when traveling east on ...

Kinney County Jail

Kinney County’s first jail, a small square simple stone structure built by James Cornell in 1873 and torn down in 1922, stood across Ann Street on the courthouse grounds, where the flagpole now stands. This second county jail was accepted ...

National Historic Landmark-Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail

National Historical Landmark-Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail

When architect Henry Hobson Richardson realized his days were numbered, he wrote, Let me have time to finish Pittsburgh and I should be content without another day.

He was referring to the massive buildings ...

National Historic Landmark-Lancaster County Jail

National Historic Landmark- Lancaster County Jail

Completed in 1823, this three story stuccoed building reflects innovations by the architect. He omitted dungeons and designed cells for better air circulation.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historic Landmarks

Photo courtesy Library of Congress Historic American ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harrison County Jail

First Log Jail erected 1809. Spier Spencer, First Sheriff, was killed 1811 commanding the Harrison County Yellow Jackets in the Battle of Tippecanoe.

During first twelve years, Harrison County had a whipping post where justice was meted out by floggings.

Second Jail ...