Daviess County Jail

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"Daviess County Jail" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/O00013705, (accessed June 6, 2025).

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Detention facility in Owensboro, Kentucky. First constructed on the town square in Owensboro in 1820. By the time of the Civil War, the jail was in its third constructed building, with construction completed in 1862. Jailer(s): B D Mitchell (1862-63).

_History of Daviess County, Kentucky. Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, Biographies of Representative Citizens. And an Outline History of Kentucky (Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co., 1883), 295-96.
“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 304.

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