Skullyville County Jail

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Skullyville County Jail
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Nearest city Panama, Oklahoma
Coordinates 35°10′25″N94°43′4″W / 35.17361°N 94.71778°W / 35.17361; -94.71778 Coordinates: 35°10′25″N94°43′4″W / 35.17361°N 94.71778°W / 35.17361; -94.71778
Area less than one acre
Built 1907
Built by Fannon,Eliza
NRHP reference # 80004286 [1]
Added to NRHP November 6, 1980

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]

Panama, Oklahoma Town in Oklahoma, United States

Panama is a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,413 at the 2010 census.

Le Flore County, Oklahoma county in Oklahoma

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National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

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.

Sandstone A clastic sedimentary rock composed mostly of sand-sized particles

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized mineral particles or rock fragments.

It has also been known as Skullyville County Jail, Choctaw Nation. [2]

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