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0016 Appomattox County Jail at Appomattox Court House Battlefield
Theed for localized service set about the formation of a new county an act the was passed on February 8,1845.It came from parts of Prince Edward,Buckingham,Charlotte,and Cambell countys.The new county
"Appomattox County"seat was put a Clover Hill because it was centrally located along the Richmond-Lynchburg stagecoach road.Most of the county came from Prince Edward County.There was already a stagecoach stop at Clover Hill,the new county seat hamlet which was high overlooking the Appomattox River.After offically made the courthouse seat and name changed to "Appomattox Court House in 1845there was a surge of activity in real estate.Lots changed hands serveral times in land speclation in anticipation of new buildings.The first constructed was a county jail in 1845 a log structure.Then came a courthouse across the stagecoach road west in 1846.During the American Civil War the original log jail burned down around 1867.it was replaced in 1870 with the present three storie brick jail,the new county jail,which was already started construction in 1860.
The new county jail layout and exterior finish cleary depict used as a jail.It is three story building of forty feet wide and twenty feet deep and across main street from the site of the old wooden county jail.The contruction of the build started in 1860,however it was not finished until 1867 due of the civil war.The structure is made of brick and iron.it has at lest two different brick types due to the long construction time.The priser jail cells with iron bars were on two floors.it alo has an attic.The prisoner cell nor secord and thrid floors at all had any heat source.The first floor where the sheriff's officeand quaters were have fireplaces.
It is constructed with interior partitions of brick with stone window sills and lintes at the cells it is built with a standing seam gable roof.There is a wooden platform on bricks pier at rear door and the metalfram wallsare mortared.The secord and third floor has outer east and west windows.The cell windows have lites and sills cut from sandstone.The center hall and first floor windows have wood sills lites.The first floor and center windows of the secord floors north side have 6/6 double hanging windows .The center nort side entrance is four-rasised panel door surrouned by four-light transom.The gable ends are void of ant window opening as is the south facade.
The building served as a Jail from 1870 to 1892.The district of Clover Hill used it as their magisterial distic polling station from 1892 to 1940.
0016 Appomattox County Jail at Appomattox Court House Battlefield
Theed for localized service set about the formation of a new county an act the was passed on February 8,1845.It came from parts of Prince Edward,Buckingham,Charlotte,and Cambell countys.The new county
"Appomattox County"seat was put a Clover Hill because it was centrally located along the Richmond-Lynchburg stagecoach road.Most of the county came from Prince Edward County.There was already a stagecoach stop at Clover Hill,the new county seat hamlet which was high overlooking the Appomattox River.After offically made the courthouse seat and name changed to "Appomattox Court House in 1845there was a surge of activity in real estate.Lots changed hands serveral times in land speclation in anticipation of new buildings.The first constructed was a county jail in 1845 a log structure.Then came a courthouse across the stagecoach road west in 1846.During the American Civil War the original log jail burned down around 1867.it was replaced in 1870 with the present three storie brick jail,the new county jail,which was already started construction in 1860.
The new county jail layout and exterior finish cleary depict used as a jail.It is three story building of forty feet wide and twenty feet deep and across main street from the site of the old wooden county jail.The contruction of the build started in 1860,however it was not finished until 1867 due of the civil war.The structure is made of brick and iron.it has at lest two different brick types due to the long construction time.The priser jail cells with iron bars were on two floors.it alo has an attic.The prisoner cell nor secord and thrid floors at all had any heat source.The first floor where the sheriff's officeand quaters were have fireplaces.
It is constructed with interior partitions of brick with stone window sills and lintes at the cells it is built with a standing seam gable roof.There is a wooden platform on bricks pier at rear door and the metalfram wallsare mortared.The secord and third floor has outer east and west windows.The cell windows have lites and sills cut from sandstone.The center hall and first floor windows have wood sills lites.The first floor and center windows of the secord floors north side have 6/6 double hanging windows .The center nort side entrance is four-rasised panel door surrouned by four-light transom.The gable ends are void of ant window opening as is the south facade.
The building served as a Jail from 1870 to 1892.The district of Clover Hill used it as their magisterial distic polling station from 1892 to 1940.