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Photographer: Brian Scott
Taken: September 5, 2008
Caption: Original The Jail Marker
Additional Description: The South Carolina provincial assembly passed a law in 1769 "for establishing Courts, building Gaols, and appointing sheriffs" in the colony. This act created seven judicial districts with a courthouse and jail for the westernmost district located at Ninety Six.

The Ninety Six jail was a two-story building with brick walls 16 inches thick, and including a third floor lookout room and a dungeon below ground.

In peacetime, the jail served as a district prison for horse thieves, counterfeiters, robbers, and murderers awaiting trial. The British, in 1780, fortified the jail to protect the western flank of the town.
Submitted: September 9, 2008, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p34999
File Size: 2.495 Megabytes

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