• Jail - Prentiss MS
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) approved an allotment of $18,317 for a new jail and office building for Prentiss and Jefferson Davis County December 1938. The WPA project employed 25-30 men. The new jail adjoined the courthouse and was a two-story concrete and steel building 32 by 53 feet. The first floor included five offices, vault, juvenile cell, and rest rooms. The second floor was for the jury dormitory, cells, and a “death cell.” Bids for materials for construction of the new jail building were advertised in August 1939. By January, the jail was in process of rebuilding. The jail...
  • Jefferson Davis County Courthouse Improvements - Prentiss MS
    WPA project 41146 approved $19,859 for "new construction, enlargement, alteration, and improvement of the building, including addition of paintings, installing of plumbing and electric facilities and other operating equipments and appurtenances to perform incidental and appurtenant work" (Half Million, 1940, p. 15). Smith and Norwood were selected to construct a "complete modernization program of the Jeff Davis county courthouse"(To Remodel, 1940, p. 6) with construction beginning May 1940.