Cuba City Jail is a historic

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located at

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Crawford County, Missouri Crawford County is a county located in the east-central portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. At the 2020 Census, the population was 23,056. Its county seat is Steelville. The county was organized in 1829 and is named after U.S. Senator Wil ...

. It was built in 1908, and is a one-story, rectangular-shaped,

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jail structure. It consists of a primary guard space complete with desk and wood-burning stove and a rear cell room with pair of hanging iron bunks. The structure was in use until 1954 and today serves as a museum.] (includes 11 photos from 2014) It was listed on the

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in 2014.

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