Arrow Rock Jail

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Title: Arrow Rock Jail
Creator(s): St. Louis Globe Democrat
Date: 1946-09-29
Content Type: picture
Geographic Area: Arrow Rock (Mo.)
Time Period: 1940-1949
Description: Image depicts the one-room Arrow Rock Jail (not in use now) which has tamed many a bad man. It stands at seven feet wide and nine feet long, ten feet high with limestone walls two feet thick. "When river packets made Arrow Rock, many a big-time gambler met his Waterloo here."
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