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Significance: Built in 1802, the Charleston District Jail was the result of a state effort to erect a modern structure that incorporated recent reforms in the national criminal code. The Robert Mills addition to the jail included cells for the solitary confinement of prisoners, an innovation advocated by penitentiary system reformers. In the 1850s, the jail was remodeled as part of a local building campaign organized to compete with other cities across the country.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N240

Survey number: HABS SC-688

Building/structure dates: 1802 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1820 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1855 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1886 Subsequent Work

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Date

1933 - 1970
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Mills, Robert
Barbot
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Price, Virginia B, transmitter
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Location

Charleston, South Carolina, United States ,  32.77847, -79.93720
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Library of Congress
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http://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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