It is the second county jail to go on the market in central Missouri in recent months. And while word of the sales have been treated in a mostly haughty, joking manner - both jails were offered as oddities at the online auction site eBay - one community is taking it seriously.
A good sale might offer some hope for the fading county seat of Huntsville and erase the memory of a double murder that occurred there.
The Randolph County Jail in Huntsville, about 45 miles north of Columbia, Mo., was built in 1910. It looks like a stately home of brick and stone. Several sheriffs and their families resided there. They lived in one half, while inmates lived in the other - an attached 30-man cellblock of metal bunks and steel bars.

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Posted: 01|7|06 at 4:59 pm. Filed under: Auction News.