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Meriwether County, GA - 1896 Jail

The 1896 Meriwether County Jail in Greenville, Georgia. It played a significant role in "Murder in Coweta County," the bestselling book by Margaret Ann Barnes, which was later made into a movie starring Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith. Based on the 1948 murder of Wilson Turner, who was jailed here by a corrupt sheriff, then let go to be killed just over the county line near Moreland in Coweta County, the case was significant in that it was the first time a white man had been convicted of murder on the testimony of African Americans in Georgia. Photo by Carol Highsmith.
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Meriwether County, GA - 1896 Jail