Old Neshoba County Jail

Old Neshoba County Jail (HM2LST)

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N 32° 46.347', W 89° 6.625'

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Built in 1955, the county jail remained in use until 1978. Civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were held here after being arrested in 1964. On June 21, 1966, a voter registration march, led by Ralph Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stopped here before moving to the Neshoba County Courthouse. This is the third structure built on this site to serve as county jail. The first being a timber structure built in 1836, which burned in 1906.
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HM NumberHM2LST
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Year Placed2012
Placed ByMississippi Department of Archives and History
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Date Added Saturday, October 12th, 2019 at 8:02pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)16S E 302330 N 3628032
Decimal Degrees32.77245000, -89.11041667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 32° 46.347', W 89° 6.625'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds32° 46' 20.82" N, 89° 6' 37.5" W
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