![]() Of people who came to Jasper for singing conventions.Įrected 1986 by Georgia Historic Marker. The well in the rear, now filled in, provided water for the hundreds The jail was ordered closed by a federal court order in 1980. The most regular residents of the jail were the sheriffs and their families, who lived here rent free. The jail still has a gallows (non-functioning) although no one was ever executed on this device. 1840 by pioneer marble entrepreneur Henry Fitzsimmons. Prather, a local stone worker, using marble from the Delaware Quarry at nearby Marble Hill. The work on the front of the jail was done by Lee W. He later supervised construction of the pink marble mansion in Tate. Louis, Mo., specifically by Luthor Cartwright, who while here married and, eventually settled in Jasper. The steel work was installed by the Pauly Jail Co. Tate urged the construction of the jail as a grand juror and on two Citizens Committees. The rock jail had replaced the first county jail, a two-story log building. It is in Jasper in Pickens County Georgia This 1906 jail was built to replace the old rock jail that stood behind the courthouse. ![]() This historical marker was erected in 1986 by Georgia Historic Marker. The well in the rear, now filled in, provided water for the hundreds of people who came to Jasper for singing conventions. 1840 by pioneer marble entrepreneur Henry Fitzsimmons., The jail still has a gallows (non-functioning) although no one was ever executed on this device. This 1906 jail was built to replace the old rock jail that stood behind the courthouse.
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