The Fullerville Jail served the city of Fullerville, Georgia, from 1916 to 1956. Former Fullerville residents recalled that the town’s first jail was a wooden structure that burned down after a prisoner arrested for public drunkenness set it on fire while trying to escape; the prisoner got out and was not seriously hurt. Based on one witness’s age at the time, the fire occurred sometime in the late 1920s or early 1930s, and the concrete jail was likely built immediately afterward, becoming ready for use in the early or mid-1930s. After the wooden jail was destroyed, funds for the concrete replacement were sought from Fullerville’s mayor and city council. Fullerville, chartered by the State of Georgia in 1916, had a strong working community connected to mills and included a cotton mill, a hosiery mill, a company store, local eateries, a lumber yard, and a casket company before it was annexed into Villa Rica, Georgia, in 1956 after 45 years as its own town. In 2009, the PBB Fullerville Jail Committee, founded by former Fullerville resident Perry Bill Bailey, organized fundraisers to preserve the jail and succeeded in gaining recognition for its historical place in the community now known as part of Villa Rica.