Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1907 — An Old Oak Jail. [ARTICLE]

An Old Oak Jail.

The Brown county (Ind.) jail was built In 1837. The walls are three feet thick and built of white oak timber. The outside and inside walls are built the same as any log house, the logs being hewed one foot square. The inside timbers are put up and down on end, one foot square, making a total thickness of three feet. No prisoner, no matter how serious the crime, has ever dug through these three foot walls. The building is two stories high. The floors are made of square timbers twelve inches thick with lumber nailed to timbers.