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OLD ADAMS COUNTY JAIL

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1891. 310 State St.

Champion Ironworks of Kenton, Ohio, designed and built this jail in the form of a Queen Anne house. O’Brien and Company of Natchez were the masonry subcontractors. The facade is finished in pressed brick, and the building is trimmed in cut stone. A front residential portion housed the sheriff, and a two-story cell block extends from the rear. In the 1990s, the county adapted the building for office space and preserved the cell-block, the separate holding cells for condemned prisoners, the hook for the hangman’s noose, and a metal trapdoor in the floor.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "OLD ADAMS COUNTY JAIL", [Natchez, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-ND21.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 32-32.

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