The Perry County Jail Museum, or just the Perry County Jail, in Pinckneyville, Illinois, is one of the two Registered Historic Places in Perry County, Illinois. The other listed site is found in Du Quoin, the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds. The Perry County Jail has been on the Register since August 2000.
The museum is operated by the Perry County Historical Society.
Famous quotes containing the words county jail, perry, county and/or jail:
“But I would say to my fellows, once for all, As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“As Ah Ling would say, “Even though the eyes may see, the mind will not believe.””
—Joseph O’Donnell, and Clifford Sanforth. Arthur Perry (Bela Lugosi)
“I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,—if ten honest men only,—ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Brother, you can’t go to jail for what you’re thinking,”
—Frank Loesser (1910–1969)