The Murphys Pokey was built around 1915 by Tom Burrow, Frank Kaler, Price Williams, Frank Segale, and Frank Forrester and was constructed of hand-mixed concrete. The previous jail was made of wood and stood closer to the creek. Although it is doubted that any really bad man was ever housed there, it is said that one of the men who built it became drunk and rowdy while celebrating its completion and was its first inmate.