Butts County GaArchives News.....Butts County;s Primitive Jail December 19, 1902
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The Pike County Journal. Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia, December 19, 1902 December 19, 1902

Butts County Primitive Jail
From the Jackson Record.

The old county jail has been torn down and the huge timbers of which it was 
built are bring sold for fence posts. This antiquated structure was erected 
just after the war between the States on the old ante-bellum ideas of 
architecture of double hewn log walls with small iron grated windows and iron 
latticed doors. The upper or second story was used for misdemeanor prisoners 
and the first floor, or dark room dungeon, with only a trap door through the 
second floor, was reserved for men of desperate characters and criminals who 
had committed heinous crimes. The heavy timbers of the building were gotten 
out by the first chaingang force that ever worked in the county, and under the 
superintendency of Capt. J. Will McCord.

(Transcribed 11/18/06 Lynn Cunningham)


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