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For instance Matthew Garrison, who was both a slave trader and jail owner in Louisville, Kentucky, submitted a bill for "boarding slaves" to the county chancery court adjudicating a dispute over estate slaves, [12] while W. H. DeJarnatt advertised that four slaves he was listing for sale could "be seen at the house of M. Garrison". [13]
Twenty-One Magazine, also known as the Old Charleston Jail, is a structure of historical and architectural significance in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Operational between 1802 and 1939, the jail held many notable figures, among them Denmark Vesey , Union officers and Colored Troops during the American Civil War, and high-seas ...
Lumpkin's Jail, also known as "the Devil's half acre", was a slave breeding farm, [1] as well as a holding facility, or slave jail, located in Richmond, Virginia, just three blocks from the state capitol building. More than five dozen firms traded in enslaved human beings within blocks of Richmond's Wall Street (now 15th Street) between 14th ...
Some for-sale former correctional facilities, such as the Litchfield Jail in Litchfield, Conn., for example, have remained on the market for years without a bite, due to their undesirable penal ...
Apr. 29—A solemn sentry stands along Ohio Street just east of the Wabash River. The rusty bars on its windows a hint of its past use. That sentry bears silent witness as Vigo County makes the ...
Sussex County moved another step closer to selling the former jail in downtown Newton. Sussex County OKs $1.8M to move offices out of Newton jail, clearing way for a sale Skip to main content
A number of slave quarters in the United States are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Many more are included as contributing buildings within listings having more substantial plantation houses or other structures as the main contributing resources in a historic district or other listing.
State Prison Historic District, in Bayport Stearns County Courthouse and Jail , in St. Cloud (jail demolished) Todd County Courthouse, Sheriff's House, and Jail , in Long Prairie (jail demolished)