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LOGAN COUNTY OLD JAIL MUSEUM

Logan County Old Jail Museum 202 North Vine Street, Paris, Arkansas For more information click on Web Site or Facebook Page

	Old Jail Museum The jailer lived on the right side.... The lady prisioners were down in the basement, the men were on the left side upstairs.	Check-In.....
		Downstairs is where the lady prisioners were kept
There was a small kitchen on the right side where all the cooking was done....
	Dress of the day....
	Orphan children from the east (New York and Boston) were sent on trains to the west where they were placed in several cities along the way....Paris being one of them.	This is a list of the orphan children that would live in this area....
Picture of some of the orphan children riding the train to parts unknown to them!	Front door to jail....	Once you opened the door there was another door.....the building had very thick walls....
Most Wanted	Upstairs were the men were kept	The small cells are now used for history items....
Cell door....
		This is one of the beds inside the cell....
You can see how thick the outside walls are.	The last person to ever be legally hanged in Arkansas, was in the back yard of the jail on July 15, 1914.

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