Herkimer County Jail, also known as the 1834 Jail, is a historic

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in Herkimer,

Herkimer County, New York Herkimer County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 60,139. Its county seat is Herkimer. The county was created in 1791 north of the Mohawk River out of part of Montgomery County. It is named a ...

. It is a two-story structure with high basement, five bays wide, of

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blocks with dressed quoins built in 1835. It features a gable roof with oval window and narrow cornice and a

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style entrance. ''See also:'' Tours are regularly given by the Herkimer County Historical Society and a museum display highlights the cases of

Chester Gillette Chester Ellsworth Gillette (August 9, 1883 – March 30, 1908), an American convicted murderer, became the basis for the fictional character Clyde Griffiths in Theodore Dreiser's novel ''An American Tragedy'', which was the basis of the 1931 fi ...

(the "American Tragedy") and Roxalana Druse.Herkimer County Historical Society, Come visit Herkimer's Historic Four Corners
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in 1972.

Gallery

Image:Herkimer Jail, Herkimer (Herkimer County, New York).jpg, Herkimer Jail, Herkimer (Herkimer County, New York), 1937 Image:Herkimer County Jail Marker Sep 09.jpg, Herkimer County Jail, Historic Marker, September 2009

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Herkimer County Historical Society website
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