Old Lumpkin City Prison -- Lumpkin GA - Retired Prisons on Waymarking.com

A small one story prison next to the Lumpkin City Hall is adequate for holding individuals arrested or detained by the Lumpkin Police Department.

In 2017 this building, which looks like it was built in the 1920s, has been out of jail standards for decades, is clearly no longer used for law enforcement purpose.

The building is part of the Lumpkin Downtown Commercial National Register Historic District, but the only mention of the jail in that application is as follows: (visit link)

"Name: Lumpkin Commercial Historic District.

Location: In Lumpkin, Stewart County, Georgia; centered on the courthouse square, which is between Main and Broad Street, and Cotton and Mulberry St., including the buildings which face the courthouse on the eight blocks around it.

Acreage: 10 acres (approximate)

. . .

"The east side of the square contains the city government building along with a few businesses in a one story brick complex of non-historic nature."

A phone call to the County Clerk elicited the response that for as long as she knows (over 20 years), the old jail has been used for storage. The person I spoke to at the Police Department said that all city prisoners are held at the Stewart County Jail. She didn't know when the old city jail, was decommissioned except it was "maybe in the 1980s."

Address: Broad Street at MLK Lumpkin, GA Open to the public: No Hours: N/A Fees?: 0 Web link: Not listed

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