Jefferson County Jail

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"Jefferson County Jail" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/O00001161, (accessed July 25, 2025).

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County jail in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Jailer(s): William K. Thomas (1860-1865), Warden(s): Henry C. Thomas (1860), Assistant jailer(s): George Winters (1860), Henry C. Thomas (1865)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 318A.
George Tilden Ragsdale, The Foster School: What to do with Short-Term Prisoners, (Louisville: The Standard Printing Company, 1916), https://archive.org/details/TheFosterSchool (accessed on March 3, 2017), 11-14.
KYR-0001-004-2728.

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