The Old Neshoba County Jail was built in 1955 and remained in use until 1978. Civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were held here after being arrested in 1964. On June 21, 1966, a voter registration march led by Ralph Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stopped here before moving to the Neshoba County Courthouse. It was the third structure built on this site to serve as the county jail; the first was a timber structure built in 1836 that burned in 1906.
