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Granbury, Texas
The Old Jail Museum on the Granbury square is a two-story limestone jail built in 1885 that held Hood County prisoners from 1886 until…
Carbon County, Pennsylvania
The Old Jail Museum in Jim Thorpe was built in 1871 and held prisoners until 1995. VisitPA lists it among the state's haunted places for…
Smethport, Pennsylvania
The Old Jail Museum in Smethport was once the McKean County jail and sheriff's residence; the front half was the sheriff's home and the…
Joliet, Illinois
Designed by architect W.W. Boyington and built largely by inmate labor beginning in 1858, Old Joliet Prison operated as the Illinois State…
Galesburg, Illinois
Built in 1874 across the street from Knox College, the old Knox County Jail was purchased by the college and today houses its Center for…
Crown Point, Indiana
Visitors and investigators at the Old Lake County Jail report orbs, unexplained voices, cell doors slamming and a dog barking with no…
Deer Lodge, Montana
The Old Montana Prison in Deer Lodge opened in 1871 as the Montana Territorial Prison and held inmates until the last were moved to a new…
Fernandina Beach, Florida
The old Nassau County Jail, now home to the Amelia Island Museum of History, is tied to local legend about a pirate hanged on gallows once…
East Granby, Connecticut
Old Newgate Prison is best known for its mine tunnels, where visitors report disembodied voices echoing in the dark, unexplained cold…
Wilkesboro, North Carolina
The Old Wilkes Jail in Wilkesboro is a 19th-century brick jail, now a museum of the Wilkes Heritage Museum, and is where Tom Dula,…
York, Maine
The Old York Gaol, built in 1719, is the oldest surviving prison in the United States and a National Historic Landmark in York Village. It…
Park City, Utah
The Park City Museum on Main Street occupies the old City Hall and territorial jail, built in 1885, and visitors can step into the jail and…
Porter, Indiana
Built in 1871 as the Porter County Jail and Sheriff's Residence, this Italianate-and-castle-style building held prisoners starting in 1872…
Council Bluffs, Iowa
The Pottawattamie County Jail opened in 1885 as a "squirrel cage" rotary jail: three stacked levels of wedge-shaped cells built around a…
Ione, California
Visitors and staff at Preston Castle describe a watched feeling throughout the building, concentrated in the basement where the head…
Cañon City, Colorado
The Museum of Colorado Prisons occupies a retired cellhouse at the Colorado Territorial Prison in Cañon City. Visitors and staff describe…
Moundsville, West Virginia
The West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, a Gothic stone prison that opened in 1876 and closed in 1995, saw riots, fires and…
Rawlins, Wyoming
The Wyoming Frontier Prison in Rawlins, the state's first penitentiary, held prisoners from 1901 to 1981, and about 200 people died here,…
Laramie, Wyoming
The Wyoming Territorial Prison in Laramie, built in 1872, held outlaws including Butch Cassidy, and is now a state historic site. Local…
Yuma, Arizona
Open from 1876 to 1909, Yuma Territorial Prison earned the nickname "Hellhole of the West" for the more than 3,000 inmates who passed…