The Skullyville County Jail, located west of Panama in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, was built in 1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
It is a small building with two-foot-thick sandstone walls, and was built by contractor Elija W. Fannin. Its only ventilation is by its doorway and by a small window, 12 by 6 inches (30 cm × 15 cm) in size, which has two sets of iron bars in it. Its door is a lattice of iron bars, which cost $55.65 from the firm of Sengel and Shulte. The jail has its original dirt floor, but has a newer roof, now covered in corrugated tin. It is significant as the only remaining artifact of the Skullyville County Government in the Choctaw Nation; a courthouse located to the north of the jail was burned in 1949.
It has also been known as Skullyville County Jail, Choctaw Nation.[2]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Skullyville County Jail, Choctaw Nation". National Park Service. 1980. Retrieved June 23, 2017. With four photos from 1979.
