Henderson County Jail

Creation Date

c1820

Dissolution Date

c1864

Entity Type

Organization

County jail in Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky. Replaced by a new jail in 1864. Jailor(s): Levi W. Brown (1860) and E.D. McBride (1862).

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 304.
Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson county, Kentucky: Comprising History of County and City, Precincts, Education, Churches, Secret Societies, Leading Enterprises, Sketches and Recollections, and Biographies of the Living and Dead (Henderson, KY: 1887), 69-70.
KYR-0001-021-0011.

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