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After the log
jail and court house on the north side of the square had served its day,
it was succeeded by the “Old Stone Jail." which stood back of the
former building and facing on the other Street. It was constructed of
heavy stone and iron, two stories high, and a heavy wall eighteen feet
high extended around the lot. For half a century it served its gloomy
purposes of confinement, and then passed into private ownership, and
became first a hotel and is now a private residence. The brick and stone
jail on the south side of the diamond, which was completed in 1869 at a
cost of $67,000, was at that time a model jail building and one of the
best in the state, and is yet a handsome public building and well
adapted to the needs of the county.
Twentieth
Century History of Mercer County,
1909, Vol. I, page 24 |
Mercer
County Jail, 1908
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