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The Putnam County Jail is located in Greencastle, Indiana.It houses approximately 145 adult men and women. The jail houses three categories of inmates: county inmates awaiting trial, county inmates serving sentences of less than one year, and inmates from the Indiana Department of Correction who have been placed in the jail to relieve overcrowding in state prisons.
Since the first years after Greencastle was platted in the early nineteenth century, the land included in the district has been the center of commerce and government for the area. At its center is the Putnam County Courthouse: the current courthouse, built in 1905, is the fourth building to occupy the site.
Port Richey was incorporated as a municipality in 1925, in response to the incorporation of New Port Richey the previous year. The name Port Richey is older than the name New Port Richey, as the post offices were established in 1884 and 1915, respectively. Singer Johnny Cash owned a home along the Pithlachascotee River from 1979 until 2002. [6]
The district encompasses 272 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Greencastle. The district developed between about 1840 and 1961 and includes notable examples of Greek Revival , Gothic Revival , Italianate , Queen Anne , Stick Style , and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture.
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Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center, also known as Pitchess Detention Center or simply Pitchess, is an all-male county detention center and correctional facility named in honor of Peter J. Pitchess located directly east of exit 173 off Interstate 5 in the unincorporated community of Castaic in Los Angeles County, California.
The first settler, in 1846, was Joseph Slaughter. A school was built there in 1849, a flour mill followed in 1875, and in 1878 15 buildings were constructed in Greencastle. [2] The Greencastle post office opened in August 1856 and closed in December 1901. [3] The population of Greencastle was 125 in 1887, [4] and was 42 in 1902. [5]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Putnam County, Indiana, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]