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United States historic place
Fauquier History Museum at the Old Jail
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
Fauquier History Museum at the Old Jail, Warrenton, Va.
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LocationFauquier County Courthouse Sq., Warrenton, Virginia
Coordinates38°42′49″N 77°47′46″W / 38.71361°N 77.79611°W / 38.71361; -77.79611
Arealess than one acre
Built1808 (1808), 1824
NRHP reference No.78003015
VLR No.156-0004
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJanuary 20, 1978
Designated VLRFebruary 15, 1977

Built in Warrenton in 1808, the sixth jail in Fauquier County, Virginia ran for only fifteen years before a new jail was erected behind it after a lawsuit with the Commonwealth of Virginia. In those fifteen years the four-cell jail saw death and disease from neglectful conditions. Soon after the 1823 jail was constructed, the 1808 jail was transformed into a jailer's house, so that he and his family could move in and care for the prisoners. A two-story sandstone addition was added onto the original brick structure to serve as a kitchen and second floor bedroom. It was operated as a jail until 1966, when the Fauquier Historical Society saved it from demolition and created a museum.

The museum was known as The Old Jail Museum before it was rebranded as the Fauquier History Museum at the Old Jail in 2014. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

The first execution of criminals condemned to suffer capital punishment in Virginia since the passage of the law, by the last General Assembly, requiring the sentence to be executed in private, occurred at the jail on July 11, 1879.

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (February 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Waverly" (PDF). Virginia Old Fauquier County Jail of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
  4. "New York Times". 12 July 1879.

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