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Book Title: A Memorial And Biographical History Of The Counties Of Santa Barbara, Ventura, And San Luis Obispo

THE COUNTY JAIL

was built in 1876, at a cost of about $9,000. It is 28 x 36 feet, and contains
an office, sitting-room, dining-room, kitchen, pantry, closet, and hall. In the
second story are three large cells for female prisoners, the main entrance to
which is through a wrought-iron skeleton door. The prison part of the jail is 28
x 31 feet over the ground, and one story high. The floor is of stone, save in
the prisons, where it is of three-eighth inch steam-boiler iron, overlaid with
wood. Entering through the iron door, one reaches the hall, which is six feet
wide, and runs the full length of the building. This hall is made of iron bars,
three fourths of an inch square, set on end, three inches apart, between the
floor and the ceiling, with iron doors at the left and right, opening into the
cells, eight In number. The doors are opened by levers from the main hall. The
cells are seven feet long, six wide, and eight high. During the day, the
prisoners have the freedom of the hall, being locked up at night. The ceiling,
floor, partitions, and doors of the cell, are all made of the boiler iron
aforesaid.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY 
OF THE COUNTIES OF
Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura, California

Illustrated

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Prospective Future; with Profuse illustrations of its Beautiful Scenery,
Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most Eminent Men, and
Biographical Mention of  many of its Pioneers and also of Prominent Citizens of
to-day,

BY MRS. YDA ADDIS STORKE.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors -will
never achieve anything worthy to he remembered with pride by remote
descendants."—Macaulay.

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1891.

Barlow-Sinclair Printing Co., Chicago.


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