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Updated 07/02/2024 History Room - 442 Hewett Street | Neillsville WI Jail Museum - 215 E 5th Street | Neillsville WI Mailing Address: P. O. Box 41 | Neillsville WI 54456 Ph: 715. 743. 2150 Email: 1897ccjm@gmail.com Web: 1897clarkcountyjailmuseum.com  2011-2024 - All Rights Reserved - 1897 Clark County Jail Museum Inc.

1897 Clark County Jail Exhibits

215 E 5th St PO Box 41 Neillsville WI 54456 Ph: 715-743-2150 1897 Clark County Jail Museum Inc.

Jail - Booking Room display

Jail - Holding cell - originally from the 2nd Clark County Jail - in use 1882 to 1897

Model of Clark County Rural School - Kurth Corners. Was located E of Neillsville on US Hwy 10 / Pray Rd.

Jail - Barber Shop display

Jail - Laundry / Ironing display

Mercantile store items - various Clark County WI merchant advertisment, tools, and displays.

Military Floor Display - uniforms from the Pancho Villas Mexican Incursion through Desert Storm.

Military Floor Display - photos flags, letters, medals, gas masks, books and memoribilia from Civil War, Mexican Incursion, WWI, WWII, Korean War and others.

Telephone Operator Display Switchboard, old telephones, directories and history of early days of telephone company and party-lines.

First occupied in October of 1897, the 3rd Clark County Jail was in constant use until 1978. Built at a cost of $15,000 (almost $1 million dollars in the economy of current times) the jail was considered a state-of-the-art facility. The Sheriff and his family lived in the residence from 1897 to 1974. Meals for the prisoners were prepared by the wife of the Sheriff. It was not unusual for members of the Sheriffs family to deliver the meals to prisoners in the jail. It was a very different time! The Sheriff Department and Patrol Department operated from this building until 1978, when the new (4th) Jail was completed.