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Entryway to the Old Charleston Jail in Charleston, South Carolina. The jail, which was operational from 1802 until 1939, housed Charleston's most infamous criminals, and, during the Civil War, Federal prisoners of war

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  1. America
  2. Charleston
  3. Color
  4. Digital Photographs
  5. Old Charleston Jail
  6. Old Jails
  7. South Carolina
  8. United States

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