00:00 - Pennsylvania is home to some of the most beautiful courthouses in america.

00:05 - It's rare would politics art and law meet at the front door

00:09 - but it happens in the keystone state.

00:12 - For more than one hundred twenty five years

00:15 - the county commissioners association of Pennsylvania has carried the legacy.

00:19 - Pennsylvania's historic court houses.

00:24 - Hello

00:25 - my name is Robert power

00:27 - i am the commission arbor Armstrong county

00:29 - along with fellow commissioners chairman

00:32 - David to Talia and commissioner Richard think.

00:34 - We welcome you along with

00:35 - kind of mr association Pennsylvania and PC

00:39 - and that allows you to view Armstrong county

00:40 - Armstrong county is located north of allegheny county Pittsburgh

00:44 - with the allegheny river running through the heart of Armstrong caddy

00:48 - firms most Barry northern tip to the very southern tip.

00:51 - Now we welcome you into the court house

00:54 - so you can say it historic

00:55 - beautiful

00:56 - county courthouse

00:57 - the courthouse you see here is actually courthouse number three

01:01 - it was replacement after courthouse number two burnt down and eighteen fifty six

01:05 - courthouse number theory is built and eighteen sixty

01:08 - it is of

01:09 - Greek revival

01:11 - and a neoclassic style

01:13 - as you can see the porticoes out front with the for granite the and.

01:17 - Pillars

01:18 - with the iconic.

01:20 - Basis holding up the ceiling.

01:22 - Typical of Greek arkham factory to see the pediment train your pin number

01:26 - at the very top along with the cornices.

01:28 - Around

01:29 - the perimeter

01:30 - of the building.

01:32 - It as in rustic stone

01:34 - and of the Greek revival

01:36 - is

01:37 - the u s

01:37 - capitol

01:38 - the white house.

01:40 - Jefferson's monticello and u s supreme court as

01:45 - compare saracens also the Greek revival is the hip roof

01:47 - with a hip roof we have the coupla

01:49 - the Coop law by a

01:51 - with the bell towers located in the top of the Cooper law

01:54 - is a domed.

01:56 - Which was at the originally was copper since then has been painted white.

02:02 - When this i was built

02:04 - in eighteen sixty.

02:06 - One hundred and twenty thousand and brick were ordered.

02:10 - It is a two storey

02:12 - courthouse where the court room

02:13 - upstairs

02:14 - and

02:15 - the offices

02:16 - downstairs.

02:17 - It was also called the temple of justice.

02:21 - Connected to the courthouse by a walkway of the

02:24 - county jail.

02:26 - Built in eighteen seventy and dedicated and eighteen seventy one

02:29 - it is of the gothic revival.

02:32 - The stone on the outside the building came from catfish

02:35 - clarion Connie.

02:38 - It was built for two hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars.

02:41 - The building is

02:42 - medieval

02:43 - the gothic

02:44 - revival

02:45 - and is

02:46 - noticed

02:46 - that the two towers on the outside

02:49 - with the battlements on top

02:51 - the rate the entrance in the center

02:55 - and a serenade of the building is a ninety six

02:57 - tower also with an embezzlement

03:00 - eighteen foot square at the bottom and tempered squared

03:03 - Tom

03:03 - found in the bell tower of

03:05 - the courthouse number three is what we believe is a

03:08 - rail relics from courthouse number two

03:10 - we know courthouse number two burnt down and eighteen fifty six

03:14 - and in the bell tire was found the scotches that are

03:17 - fire damaged

03:18 - not only the scotch but we also found a piece of lead tile

03:22 - from the roof which is also

03:24 - fire

03:24 - damaged.

03:26 - Consequently during the

03:28 - inspection

03:29 - of that area we found the shoes

03:31 - which we believe our from the nineteen twenty nineteen thirty air.

03:38 - The memorial wall dedicated

03:40 - may thirty first nineteen

03:41 - ninety seven depicts

03:43 - the people that

03:44 - are

03:44 - Armstrong county

03:45 - who gave their life

03:47 - for the freedoms

03:48 - that we have

03:49 - the wall gives a picturesque

03:51 - description of the French Indian war

03:53 - up to the persian Gulf war

03:55 - including my uncle

03:56 - who was killed in world war two.

04:01 - To know the history of courthouse number three we first have to talk about courthouse

04:04 - number one in the courthouse number two

04:06 - Armstrong county charted and eighteen hundred

04:09 - and later the county seat contending and eighteen one three

04:12 - as the population grew so did the buildings.

04:16 - The first

04:17 - temple of justice was the Reynolds house

04:19 - and catan in the corner of Jefferson a market street

04:22 - their the tenth county tenth circuit court

04:25 - heard

04:26 - hearings

04:27 - before a courthouse was even built

04:29 - and eighteen oh nine

04:30 - courthouse number one

04:32 - in fifty by fifty foot structure

04:34 - was built.

04:35 - Their at the core owner of Jefferson

04:38 - and

04:38 - market street across from

04:40 - the Reynolds

04:41 - house also called the Reynolds and

04:43 - later to be even called the containing in

04:45 - or their social

04:46 - store.

04:47 - When is determined and eighteen forty eight

04:50 - that courthouse number one was no longer

04:52 - adequate

04:53 - for

04:53 - the temple of justice a second call courthouse she

04:57 - was built

04:58 - at determined and of market street on a hillside overlooking the

05:01 - county seat catan and.

05:04 - Eighteen forty nine eighteen fifty six second

05:06 - number to court house

05:08 - was used

05:09 - however it was also considered inadequate

05:11 - want to caught fire and eighteen fifty six

05:14 - it was reported that Bert people holler

05:16 - let it burn let it burn.

05:18 - Bowling the fire of courthouse number two

05:21 - courthouse number three was built on the same location on the same foundation

05:25 - as courtroom house number two

05:27 - and where we are standing today

05:30 - to know Armstrong county is to learn

05:32 - the history of the county.

05:34 - In the late sixteenth hunters as French

05:37 - explorers came down through the area by the way the allegheny river

05:40 - back then done by the French as the LaBelle river

05:43 - later replaced in their early seventeen hundreds

05:46 - by

05:46 - the

05:47 - land of plenty Lena p and ends of the Delaware

05:50 - in the the tribes.

05:52 - They settled in the

05:53 - area of catan in

05:55 - which they called

05:56 - canton NYC.

05:57 - Which was by the river they called katon ne

06:00 - qahtani meaning the great dream or the great river.

06:05 - During that time the colonists were coming from the

06:09 - east headed west and invading the Indian territory

06:11 - the Delaware tribe of the Lenny lenape p Indians headed by.

06:15 - Captain

06:16 - Jacobs the Indian chief.

06:18 - Then went

06:19 - to the

06:20 - east

06:21 - capturing

06:21 - a lot of the colonists than bringing them back to the village of qahtani.

06:26 - A young lieutenant colonel Armstrong was given to duty

06:29 - over in cumberland county

06:30 - to come west

06:32 - and released

06:32 - the captured

06:33 - colonist.

06:35 - September seventh

06:37 - seventeen fifty six

06:39 - as

06:39 - lieutenant colonel Armstrong

06:41 - approach blanket hill his scouting party

06:44 - found for

06:45 - Indians around

06:46 - a

06:47 - campfire.

06:49 - With there's three hundred and seven man.

06:51 - He kept eighteen behind

06:53 - to capture

06:54 - those Indians in the early mornings not to give away to his

06:58 - invasion he had planned

06:59 - on September eighth

07:00 - seventeen fifty six

07:02 - of the qahtani

07:03 - village.

07:05 - Lieutenant colonel Armstrong continued

07:07 - to

07:07 - cut honey

07:08 - village

07:09 - and on the morning

07:11 - he raided

07:11 - and killed.

07:13 - Captain Jacobs his wife

07:15 - and children

07:16 - and to this day we don't know how many of those Indians were killed

07:19 - but he did release

07:20 - a lot of the capture columnists

07:22 - that captain Jacobs

07:23 - had captured

07:24 - from the

07:25 - eastern part of the state.

07:27 - Also not known as a blanket hill where he left

07:31 - all his blankets all the extra material the

07:32 - carried with them

07:33 - there was a greater band of Delaware Indians

07:35 - not known

07:36 - as young

07:37 - lieutenant.

07:39 - Hog

07:40 - was killed at blanket hill along with.

07:44 - All but three of the other men.

07:47 - Girl Armstrong find a raid on kit hynek made his way back to.

07:51 - Cumberland

07:52 - area.

07:54 - And falling revolutionary war.

07:57 - He has now become an elevated to colonel Armstrong.

08:01 - As one of his rewards and during his promotion.

08:04 - A

08:04 - track of land out of allegheny

08:07 - lycoming

08:08 - and westmoreland county

08:09 - was named on behalf of colonel Armstrong what we became

08:12 - Armstrong county.

08:14 - As you can see behind may when courthouse number two was built and later replaced by

08:18 - court and number three it was built

08:21 - on an area on a hill overlooking the county seat

08:24 - get tanning

08:25 - it was built on behalf of the citizens as that overlooks the only the county seat

08:29 - but overlooks the county

08:30 - to which

08:31 - the county courthouse serves its people.

08:34 - We just entered the

08:36 - main courthouse through the front float

08:38 - doors

08:39 - off the portico

08:40 - and your met with the English

08:43 - variegated

08:43 - floor.

08:48 - Typical of the cross hallway

08:50 - from the Greek revival period

08:52 - the four corners represent

08:54 - the treasurer's office.

08:56 - As we pan to the right.

08:58 - Where's the

08:59 - sheriff's office

09:00 - door

09:01 - to the right.

09:03 - The prothonotary

09:05 - and over to the recorder's office.

09:08 - The courthouse major to one hundred and five by fifth sixty five feet

09:12 - sixty five feet.

09:15 - Finishing.

09:17 - At this point

09:18 - before the additional.

09:21 - Part of the courthouse was added in the nineteen fifties.

09:30 - Here we are in court room number one it is the

09:34 - largest of the three courtrooms in the courthouse

09:35 - this is the of course original court

09:37 - room

09:38 - and comes to seventy five percent of the second floor majors

09:41 - sixty two by fifty eight feet

09:43 - as you look around the courtroom you see the

09:47 - large windows both on the bottom and on top

09:48 - large windows

09:50 - were used to light the courtroom during those early days when lighting

09:54 - was.

09:56 - Not to today's standards

09:57 - including the windows on top which are the original

10:01 - windows all the bottom ones have been replaced

10:03 - with the new energy efficient windows

10:05 - as you look around of your room.

10:08 - Ceramic view

10:09 - of past judges

10:10 - that served Armstrong county starting and seventeen thirty six

10:14 - and ending

10:15 - with the current judge.

10:17 - Next i'd like to introduce

10:19 - judge Patrick

10:20 - who talk

10:21 - about those judges.

10:23 - Hello

10:24 - i'm judge James j Patrick

10:26 - and i'm here in the history Rick

10:28 - courtroom number one the grand courtroom of the Armstrong county courthouse

10:33 - and i am pleased to be with you today at present

10:36 - what i considered be some of the treasure

10:39 - of Armstrong county which is our people

10:42 - and my

10:44 - good fortune

10:45 - is to have been elected the tenth June judge

10:48 - of the thirty third judicial district which

10:51 - comprises Armstrong county

10:54 - and share with you the history of some of the

11:00 - joris that are featured on the walls of this.

11:01 - Wonderful courtroom here

11:03 - the first judge i'd like to feature

11:05 - is judge j frank graph junior.

11:09 - Who is

11:10 - a resident of Armstrong county and was a president judge

11:14 - of Armstrong county the first elected judge for Armstrong county

11:18 - was Jackson boggs who was elected and eighteen seventy four.

11:23 - So.

11:25 - J frank graph.

11:28 - Was born in on December twenty eighth

11:31 - eighteen eighty eight

11:32 - in west Franklin township.

11:35 - It is now considered Worthington borrow a western borrow

11:40 - of Armstrong county bordering

11:42 - almost Butler county

11:45 - and.

11:46 - Judge graph.

11:48 - Was the son of

11:50 - j frank graph senior

11:52 - and

11:53 - judge graph is known historically as.

11:56 - Premier politician.

11:58 - In in

12:00 - this area and there's a reason for that I'll get to that

12:03 - but his family background.

12:06 - Really

12:07 - points the direction that his life would take.

12:11 - The judge was the son of j frank graph who was a two term

12:15 - legis later

12:16 - in the Pennsylvania state legislature and he served one term and Pennsylvania state

12:21 - senate.

12:22 - Unfortunately

12:24 - judge graphs mother.

12:26 - Carry Louise brown

12:28 - graph died when when the judge was

12:31 - only twelve years old

12:33 - and he was one of several

12:36 - so siblings

12:37 - and

12:38 - his father.

12:40 - Had him.

12:42 - Sent to a military school.

12:45 - From the military school

12:47 - judge graph.

12:49 - Participated with the local national guard

12:52 - and he was dispatched to the Mexican border.

12:56 - Where he served under general pershing.

12:59 - It's not sure it's not clear from what he had

13:04 - to say that there was a he saw action there

13:05 - but he was deployed there

13:07 - and thereafter he went to school.

13:10 - He went to Princeton university graduated from there to Harvard university

13:15 - where he completed one year

13:17 - and came back to

13:18 - tanning

13:19 - the reasons for on sure

13:21 - but he resumed study at the university of Pittsburgh school of law

13:25 - and graduated their two years later.

13:28 - Is about that time that world war one

13:31 - was breaking out

13:33 - and judge graph.

13:35 - Went back in

13:37 - to the Pennsylvania national guard.

13:40 - The the reserves and was federalized

13:44 - and was deployed to France

13:46 - i believe the judge went in as sec second lieutenant

13:50 - and he was promoted on the field

13:53 - and came out

13:54 - with the

13:55 - rank of major

13:57 - a

13:58 - and as i indicated earlier.

14:01 - His background had a lot to do with his future

14:04 - the judge was loved

14:06 - by his men and he was the

14:09 - a head of the first battalion

14:11 - of the one hundred and twelfth infantry.

14:14 - Which is

14:15 - was known as k company and others

14:18 - and.

14:19 - All of

14:20 - that company

14:21 - consisted of residents of Armstrong county and surrounding areas so.

14:26 - These men

14:27 - were loyal to to judge graph they knew him well

14:31 - have a seen him through a battle and and he

14:36 - was an intense battle he was highly decorated

14:37 - and when he came back home the son of a

14:40 - state senator.

14:42 - Who had contacts

14:43 - throughout the entire region.

14:46 - It was no wonder as a young lawyer a very young lawyer

14:50 - or judge a graph was elected

14:53 - nov twenty of nineteen twenty three

14:56 - at the age of thirty five years old

14:58 - he was the youngest member of the bar

15:01 - and according to judge graph

15:03 - a

15:03 - he felt that some of the older members at that time the bar

15:07 - an average age might have been so sixty or seventy years may have resented that fact

15:12 - but he was so loved

15:14 - that he didn't have an opponent

15:16 - in the

15:17 - republican primary and he handily won

15:20 - that election.

15:22 - The judge had a

15:23 - political connections

15:25 - and in

15:27 - February of

15:28 - nineteen thirty

15:29 - he was appointed to the Pennsylvania superior court there was a vacancy

15:34 - and an election was conducted that spring

15:36 - unfortunately for

15:38 - a judge graph but fortunately for.

15:42 - The residents of Armstrong county he did not win that election.

15:46 - He was defeated by and allegheny county judge

15:49 - and he he returned to Armstrong

15:51 - was reappointed to the bench

15:53 - and then ran for re

15:56 - election

15:57 - in

15:58 - nineteen thirty one

16:00 - and he was soundly.

16:01 - Elected

16:02 - the judge sat

16:03 - for ten years

16:05 - ran for election in nineteen forty one

16:07 - was elected ran for election and ninety

16:10 - fifty one

16:11 - was elected and ran for election in nineteen sixty one

16:14 - and was elected

16:16 - where a very fortunate to have had a judge graph sit here.

16:21 - He sat

16:23 - not only the longest

16:25 - ah

16:25 - but when judge graph was elected

16:28 - to the bench.

16:29 - His successor judge are a house

16:32 - wasn't born for another fifteen months

16:35 - so.

16:36 - The judge graph was

16:38 - a a excellent jurist.

16:41 - Ha he was a no nonsense judge.

16:44 - He was loved by his constituents he was respected by his colleagues and his peers

16:50 - and we're very fortunate to have had him

16:53 - and that's why i consider

16:55 - the portraits in his room is a treasure.

16:58 - Because

16:59 - as a

17:00 - practicing attorney in his for room for twenty five years you look at the portraits

17:04 - and you wonder what's behind them

17:07 - but she never actually do the research well.

17:10 - When i came on the bench

17:12 - and

17:13 - i i did have the time and the the curiosity was piqued

17:16 - and as i studied these judges

17:19 - i discovered that

17:20 - their stories need to be told because

17:24 - we're very fortunate to have had them

17:26 - and if they're not memorialized now there'll

17:30 - be forgotten and it'll be a lost treasure.

17:31 - So that is judge graph.

17:35 - The first portrait featured.

17:37 - In the courtroom number one here are grand courtroom

17:41 - is judge Thomas white

17:43 - judge white sat

17:44 - when Armstrong county was in the tenth.

17:48 - Judicial district and he in fact was resident of Indiana county

17:52 - his connection to Armstrong county however

17:55 - being in the that district and he traveled this circuit.

18:00 - Was strong and the people here felt very strongly about him

18:04 - the bar of Indiana county was where of that and on his death and passing the bar of

18:10 - Indiana county presented the bar association of Armstrong county

18:14 - with a portrait

18:15 - of judge

18:16 - white

18:17 - to be hung in his courtroom.

18:19 - Forever to be memorialized.

18:23 - Judge white was born in battle Abby england

18:26 - in seventeen ninety four.

18:28 - His father.

18:30 - Served under king George the third

18:33 - and was a well known and renown military man

18:38 - and on his retirement

18:40 - he

18:41 - came into this country

18:42 - and and relocated to Philadelphia and and started

18:45 - a

18:46 - a classic school for boys which was at the time.

18:50 - One of the premier

18:52 - academies in Philadelphia.

18:55 - Judge white was appointed.

18:57 - President judge of the

18:59 - tenth judicial district in eighteen thirty six.

19:03 - Judge whites.

19:05 - Premier contribution

19:07 - to American

19:08 - putin

19:09 - jurist

19:10 - prudence and and i mean

19:11 - a

19:12 - governing the nation as opposed to our small can unity

19:15 - involved a young slave a twelve year old

19:18 - a fella from

19:20 - Virginia his name was Anthony

19:22 - hollingsworth

19:24 - and in Indiana by the old courthouse in Indiana is a historic

19:28 - landmark designation

19:30 - as that was the place where this case was decided and.

19:35 - What happened in the hollingsworth case

19:37 - is a family from Pendleton county Virginia the Van meters

19:42 - and

19:43 - they.

19:44 - Sought.

19:46 - Hollingsworth who.

19:48 - Went through the underground railroad ended up coming through our area

19:53 - into Indiana

19:54 - and somehow it came to the Van meters attention.

19:58 - That he was in Indiana county

20:01 - and they got in contact with the sheriff who took

20:04 - took

20:05 - a young hollings worth and i believe to others

20:08 - into custody and incarcerated them.

20:11 - Are areas renowned and a renowned abolitionist area

20:15 - and there were those who filed for a writ of

20:18 - habeas corpus

20:20 - to seek the release of Anthony hollingsworth

20:23 - and that ended up in front of judge while

20:26 - and.

20:28 - Judge white was quite clever.

20:30 - In how he handled that matter.

20:34 - In eighteen forty four white followed judge Mansfield

20:38 - a

20:39 - of who

20:40 - abolished slavery in england

20:42 - and judge white held freedom is a natural condition

20:46 - of man can only be

20:48 - a re taken away or removed as

20:51 - for punishment

20:52 - of a crime or a violation

20:54 - of some municipal law so judge white

20:57 - demanded of the sheriff

20:59 - of Indiana county that he prove

21:01 - that the Van meters

21:03 - had legal ownership of this youngster

21:05 - he also demanded the sheriff prove the legality

21:10 - of slavery under the Virginia constitution

21:11 - while

21:12 - these filing things occur

21:14 - and a cases are heard immediately

21:16 - and and eighteen forty four

21:19 - they didn't have

21:20 - the ability

21:21 - to transfer

21:23 - any type of documentation or communication

21:26 - and consequently the sheriff i

21:29 - could not make those proofs

21:31 - and

21:32 - judge white released.

21:34 - Anthony hollingsworth

21:36 - in eighteen forty four and to put this into context

21:40 - the dred Scott

21:41 - decision of the u s supreme court didn't occur until eighteen fifty seven

21:46 - and in the dreads

21:47 - got decision

21:49 - the Pennsylvania or excuse me the u s supreme court

21:52 - held that a slave was not quote a man

21:55 - to have standing in the federal courts

21:57 - so before

21:59 - the supreme court of the country.

22:02 - Made such ruling judge white here locally

22:06 - was in advance

22:07 - of that

22:08 - and actually advance of the supreme court's later decisions in the slaughterhouse cases

22:13 - in a eighteen sixty eight.

22:16 - That in essence

22:19 - abolished the

22:20 - dred Scott decision without expressly of rolling it

22:24 - okay the second

22:25 - portrait on the wall.

22:27 - In this courtroom

22:29 - is a portrait of

22:31 - judge Joseph buffington.

22:33 - Joseph buffington in fact was a resident of

22:36 - tanning

22:37 - and

22:38 - he practiced law

22:39 - containing

22:40 - almost all of his career and interestingly.

22:44 - A a a

22:47 - fellow lawyer with him

22:49 - and also resident of containing

22:51 - William frame johnston

22:54 - was the eleventh governor of Pennsylvania

22:56 - and the court room and the courthouse i'm standing in.

23:00 - Was erected here.

23:02 - Because

23:03 - governor johnston.

23:05 - Attending some of judge buffington proceeding in the old courthouse

23:10 - which was on.

23:12 - Jefferson street market street and containing.

23:15 - A

23:16 - judge

23:17 - or excuse me governor johnston felt was not

23:20 - suitable.

23:21 - Not a suitable facility

23:23 - and he went to Harrisburg and at and

23:26 - a

23:27 - law was enacted this a rock as they called it was purchased

23:31 - and the courthouse was constructed here.

23:34 - Judge buffington was the president judge of the eighteenth judicial district from

23:39 - eighteen forty nine eighteen fifty one

23:42 - he then was appointed president judge of the

23:46 - tenth judicial district and eighteen fifty six

23:47 - and

23:48 - it was from judge buffington

23:50 - and his friendship with governor johnston who also lived on waters st and containing

23:57 - that we have this courthouse and again.

24:00 - This leads me to the conclusion of the treasures that we have here

24:04 - and why i'm so pleased to present them to so

24:08 - on behalf of the

24:10 - bench here at in the thirty third judicial district

24:13 - i thank you for the opportunity to be with you

24:16 - and i hope that some of these.

24:19 - Little.

24:20 - Fact may be of interest to you so thank you very much for having me.

24:25 - We are now standing in front of the gel

24:27 - fill

24:28 - eighteen seventy one.

24:30 - Ten years ago was still used as

24:32 - you

24:33 - like to do is take you on a short tour of the jail.

24:36 - We're standing in the kitchen

24:37 - of the jail.

24:39 - The

24:40 - meals here were served

24:41 - by the

24:42 - wife

24:43 - of the sheriff

24:44 - and by the wife of the chief deputy sheriff

24:47 - the housing for about the sheriff and depth chief deputy sheriff

24:50 - or in the first floor and a second floor

24:53 - the first floor being the quarters for the sheriff the

24:56 - second floor being a quarters for the chief deputy.

24:58 - I have a personal touch with

24:59 - the a gel as

25:01 - a classmate of mine

25:03 - was the sheriff

25:04 - and as a teenager i used to come down and

25:06 - hang out

25:07 - at the gel

25:08 - in the kitchen once the meals were cooked

25:11 - used to be a hole in the wall which has now been covered

25:13 - where the trays were sent over to

25:16 - the prison side

25:17 - of the jail.

25:22 - This is the first floor.

25:25 - Of the prison

25:26 - there are twelve jail cells.

25:30 - Original

25:31 - jail had an open second floor

25:34 - where the stairwell went up through the center

25:37 - to a catwalk.

25:39 - Where the second.

25:41 - Twelve cells are located

25:43 - today of course they're headed

25:44 - hidden by the.

25:46 - The the ceiling which now serves as the second floor for the twelve sales upstairs.

25:52 - Today

25:53 - issues as and archiving our.

25:57 - Documents

25:58 - from the courts.

26:03 - And from our mapping department.

26:07 - As i had said earlier

26:09 - up to ten years ago

26:10 - it was still used as a gel.

26:14 - There has been vacated since

26:15 - when we bill our new a gel outside of the containing area.

26:21 - Now i'm standing inside one of the jail cells

26:25 - measuring a foot by thirteen foot.

26:28 - At very

26:29 - minimal amount.

26:32 - Of utilities.

26:35 - Eight by thirteen

26:37 - to jail inmates.

26:39 - Serviced by.

26:41 - One toilet

26:42 - and one small sink.

26:45 - And three squares a day.

26:48 - This is a jail cell

26:50 - located in the basement of the jail.

26:53 - Sec said back in the days of all that were prisoners are uncontrollable

26:58 - or we're in for murder were chained to the back wall of this particular sell.

27:08 - This is the a living quarters of the chief deputy sheriff

27:12 - it is the same an exact as a sheriff

27:15 - living quarters downstairs

27:17 - as you can says and today it's being used as office space

27:20 - but years ago she used to be the living room

27:23 - and and.

27:24 - A bedroom.

27:27 - And a second bedroom on the other side.

27:32 - Small kitchen bath.

27:37 - And by yesterday's standards.

27:42 - Was a unique

27:43 - living

27:44 - quarters.

27:45 - Today it would be unacceptable.

27:51 - We're now on the third floor the county jail.

27:54 - Only thing different about it in the basement

27:58 - of or from the basement of the third floor

27:58 - this is where a lot of the documents are stored.

28:02 - From an archived

28:03 - from years ago

28:04 - for example

28:05 - we have books here from

28:07 - eighteen seventy two to eighteen seventy eight

28:10 - records nineteen twenty five to nineteen thirty three

28:14 - ninety

28:14 - thirty two nine eighteen eighty eight.

28:20 - Now a lot of these records are store downstairs in the a jail cells to prep then from

28:26 - having to carry everything up to the third floor.

28:29 - As i had shown you earlier the fire damage Scott

28:32 - and rooftop coming from the court house

28:35 - number two.

28:37 - This also bell is significant because we believe it came

28:41 - from courthouse number two that had burnt

28:43 - this bell and found in the attic of the courthouse number three was fire damaged

28:47 - we believe this very well came from courthouse number to.

28:51 - This as an o s good.

28:53 - O s bell

28:54 - that was produced then hillsborough Ohio

28:56 - between at year rs eighteen hundred and nineteen oh what.

29:00 - We know perch deck a bell was purchased this and eighteen eighteen

29:03 - for courthouse number one

29:05 - we believe it was taken the courthouse number two

29:08 - and then with the fire damage

29:09 - was put in the attic a courthouse number three

29:12 - we know the bow and courthouse number three is from the a boat and

29:16 - they are boundary

29:17 - out of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

29:19 - while we haven't proven

29:21 - that this is the bow from courthouse number one or courthouse number two

29:24 - we have not disproven it.

29:27 - From the Armstrong county

29:28 - commissioner's office and the Armstrong county tourists pure

29:31 - we thank you very much for joining us tennis historical tour

29:34 - of the Armstrong county courthouse.

29:36 - Thank you.

30:03 - That.