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{{Short description, None This is an incomplete list of Jails and prisons listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Included are:


Alabama

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Houston Jail The Houston Jail is a historic jail building in Houston, Winston County, Alabama. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 5, 1975. History The building is the only known surviving log jail in the state and the only public ...
, Houston, Alabama, NRHP listed * Old Jail (Gordo, Alabama), Gordo, Alabama, NRHP listed * Coosa County Jail, Rockford, Alabama, NRHP listed


Connecticut

* Fairfield County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Bridgeport, Connecticut


Florida

* Old Hamilton County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Jasper, Florida * Old St. Johns County Jail, listed on the NRHP in St. Augustine, Florida * Old Taylor County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Perry, Florida


Georgia

* Old Jail (Washington, Georgia), listed on the NRHP in Wilkes County * Quitman County Courthouse and Old Jail, listed on the NRHP in Georgetown * Rockdale County Jail in
Conyers, Georgia Conyers is an Atlanta suburb, the county seat of and only city in Rockdale County, Georgia, United States. The city is 24 miles (38.6 km) east of downtown Atlanta and is a part of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census, t ...
, listed on the NRHP in Rockdale County


Illinois

* Franklin County Jail (Illinois), listed on the NRHP in Illinois


Iowa

* Dubuque County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Iowa * Old Jail (Muscatine, Iowa), listed on the NRHP in Iowa *
Pottawattamie County Jail The Pottawattamie County Jail, also known as 'Squirrel Cage Jail' in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States was built in 1885 and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The building is a Squirrel Cage Jail, also known as a ...
, listed on the NRHP in Iowa * Scott County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Iowa


Louisiana

* Beauregard Parish Jail * Old St. Helena Parish Jail, in Greensburg


Massachusetts

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Charles Street Jail The Charles Street Jail (built 1851), also known as the Suffolk County Jail, is an infamous former jail (later renovated into a luxury hotel) located at 215 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts. It is listed in the state and national Registers o ...
, listed on the NRHP in Boston, Massachusetts (North) *
Old Jail (Barnstable, Massachusetts) Barnstable's Old Gaol is a historic colonial jail in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Built 1690, it is the oldest wooden jail in the United States of America. The jail was built by order of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colony courts. It serve ...
, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts


Minnesota

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Aitkin County Courthouse and Jail The Aitkin County Courthouse and Jail, in Aitkin, Minnesota, United States, serves as the county seat of Aitkin County. The building is actually the second courthouse for the county. The first courthouse was built in 1888, but in 1920, a grand ...
, in Aitkin *
Crow Wing County Courthouse and Jail The Crow Wing Historic County Courthouse, in Brainerd, Minnesota, United States, is a Beaux-Arts courthouse built in 1920. The building, along with its adjoining jail, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Re ...
, in Brainerd *
Elizabeth Village Hall and Jail Elizabeth Village Hall and Jail is the seat of the local government and a historic building located in Elizabeth, Minnesota, United States. Completed in 1898, the two-story brick structure replaced a single-story wood-frame structure that was later ...
, in Elizabeth *
Fillmore County Jail and Carriage House Fillmore may refer to: Places Canada * Fillmore, Saskatchewan * Rural Municipality of Fillmore No. 96, Saskatchewan United States * Fillmore, California * Fillmore District, San Francisco, California * Fillmore, Louisiana * Fillmore, Ill ...
, in Preston *
Houston County Courthouse and Jail The Houston County Courthouse and Jail, located at 304 Marshall Street South in Caledonia, Houston County in the U.S. state of Minnesota, consists of a Romanesque stone courthouse featuring a prominent center tower, built in 1883 and an Italiana ...
, in Caledonia *
Le Sueur County Courthouse and Jail The Le Sueur County Courthouse and Jail are government buildings in Le Center, Minnesota, United States. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. The 1896 courthouse and 1914 jail were nominated to the Register for be ...
, in Le Center *
Lincoln County Courthouse and Jail Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S. * Lincoln ...
, in Ivanhoe * Minnesota Home School for Girls, in Sauk Centre * Minnesota State Reformatory for Men Historic District, in St. Cloud * Minnesota State Training School, in Red Wing *
Minnesota Territorial Prison The Minnesota Territorial Prison, later the Minnesota State Prison, was a prison in Stillwater, Minnesota, United States, in operation from 1853 to 1914. Construction of the prison began in 1851, shortly after Minnesota became a territory. The pr ...
, in Stillwater (demolished and delisted) * Nicollet County Courthouse and Jail, in St. Peter * Odessa Jail, in Odessa * Park Rapids Jail, in Park Rapids * Renville County Courthouse and Jail, in Olivia * Rice County Courthouse and Jail, in Faribault * Rock County Courthouse and Jail, in Luverne * Sibley County Courthouse and Sheriff's Residence and Jail, in Gaylord * State Prison Historic District, in Bayport * Stearns County Courthouse and Jail, in St. Cloud (jail demolished) * Todd County Courthouse, Sheriff's House, and Jail, in Long Prairie (jail demolished) * Walters Jail, in Walters


Montana

* Fallon County Jail, in Baker * Belt Jail, listed on the NRHP in Belt, Montana * Gallatin County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Bozeman, Montana * Ismay Jail, in Custer County * Lodge Grass City Jail, listed on the NRHP in Lodge Grass, Montana * Granite County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Philipsburg, Montana * Square Butte Jail, listed on the NRHP in Square Butte, Montana * Sanders County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Thompson Falls, Montana * Troy Jail, in Lincoln County


Oregon

* Clatsop County Jail (Old), listed on the NRHP in Astoria, Oregon


South Carolina

* Florence Stockade, in Florence County * South Carolina Penitentiary, former listing (demolished) * Oconee County Cage, in Walhalla * Oconee County Jail, former listing (demolished)


Tennessee

* Old Scott County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Huntsville, Tennessee * Old Fentress County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Jamestown, Tennessee * Lawrence County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee * Old Bedford County Jail, in Shelbyville * Claiborne County Jail, in Tazewell * Franklin County Jail (Tennessee), listed on the NRHP in Winchester, Tennessee


Texas

* Austin County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Bellville, Texas * Bowie County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Boston, Texas * Old Cameron County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Brownsville, Texas * Brown County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Brownwood, Texas * Bosque County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Meridian, Texas * Anderson County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Palestine, Texas * Coke County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Robert Lee, Texas


Virginia

* Old Fauquier County Jail, in Warrenton


Wisconsin

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Kenosha County Courthouse and Jail The Kenosha County Courthouse and Jail is located in Kenosha, Wisconsin in the United States. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Description The first Kenosha County Courthouse was built in 1850 when Kenosha C ...
, in Kenosha *
Marquette County Courthouse and Marquette County Sheriff's Office and Jail The Marquette County Courthouse and Marquette County Sheriff's Office and Jail is located in Montello, Wisconsin. In 1982, the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the ...
, in Montello *
New Glarus Town Hall The New Glarus Town Hall in New Glarus, Wisconsin, was built in 1886 to house both the town hall and a meeting place for the Ancient Order of United Workmen. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. History The first sett ...
, in Green County * Pepin County Courthouse and Jail, in Durand


Wyoming

* Clearmont Jail, in Sheridan County


See also

* List of jail and prison museums
Jails A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, standard English, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correcti ...