Chattahoochee County Jail

Chattahoochee County's jail stands on property purchased soon after the county was created on February 13, 1854. The original two-story log jail, for which Asbury Bryan was paid $1,250, was completed by July 20, 1855, under the supervision of Sheriff Silas Brown. It measured eighteen by twenty-two feet, with fifteen inches separating the double walls, and remained in continuous use until a new facility was completed in 1902, when LaFayette Harp was sheriff. The replacement, a two-story fireproof jail built in 1902 by the Pauly Jail and Manufacturing Company of St. Louis, Missouri for $5,000, featured Romanesque influences including arched windows and door openings with an extended central bay. Its original prefabricated iron cells, with unique corner fireplaces, are on the second floor. The jail served the county until 1975 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 13, 1986.

Cusseta-Chattahoochee County, Georgia · United States