Old Greene County "Gaol"-GHM 066-5-Greene Co
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Sprinterman
N 33° 34.607 W 083° 10.904
17S E 297508 N 3717364
At the old jail behind the courthouse in Greensboro
Waymark Code: WM6HGG
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 06/06/2009
Views: 6
The old rock jail in the rear of the Court House is patterned after the bastilles where prisoners were housed and punished a hundred or more years ago. Built of granite about two feet thick, it is two stories in height and has a trap door in the floor of the upper story where condemned prisoners were hanged. An iron bar supported the trap door. When the signal was given, the hangman pulled the lever that controlled the bar and the culprit was launched into eternity.
This prison was built about 1807, after the General Presentments of the Greene County Superior Court recommended that a substantial jail be built.
The cells are veritable dungeons without light or ventilation, except for the grated door downstairs and the small, grated windows above. The dungeons in Fort Marion are no more horrible. It was used as a jail until about 1895.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 066-5
Date: 1957
Sponsor: GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
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