Rankin County Jail (demolished) – Brandon MS

City:
Brandon, MS

Site Type:
Military and Public Safety, Penal Facilities

New Deal Agencies:
Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Started:
1936

Completed:
1936

Designers:
A. H. Town, N. W. Overstreet

Contractor:
I. C. Garbor and Son

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

The two-story jail was completed in 1936 for a total cost of $27,453. Public Works Administration provided a grant of $12,310 and Rankin County provided the remainder through a bond election. The project, W1159, was approved November 14, 1935, and bids advertised in November. Contracts were awarded December 14, 1935. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History documents N. W. Overstreet & A. H. Town as architects. The Jackson Clarion-Ledger (Nov 1, 1936) identified E. L. Malvaney as architect and I. C. Garbor and Sons construction. Construction began March 9, 1936 and was completed September 22, 1936. The jail was described as “one of the most modern jail buildings in the state and is as near mob proof and escape proof as is possible to make a small jail” (Clarion-Ledger, 1936, p. 9). It was demolished c. 2006 according to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory database.

Source notes

Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory, Brandon. Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=publicPropSearch&Name=&StreetNo=&StreetName=&City=Brandon&County=Any
"More State PWA Work is Okehed." (November 25, 1935. Clarion-Ledger (Jackson).
"New Rankin Jail." (November 1, 1936). Clarion-Ledger (Jackson), p. 9
Status of Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, Report No. 5, Region No. 3. Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Projects Division. January 3, 1940, p. no. 105.

Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on October 28, 2017.

Location Info


N Timber St.
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
Rankin County

Location notes: Located north of old courthouse at coordinates below. It was at approximately 299-101 N. Timber Street, between N. Timber and North Street on the present day map. (MDAH, HRI Map)

Coordinates: 32.2740484, -89.9864753

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