Old Jail Managed to Outlive Its Usefulness in Just 128 Years

(WoCCP) - Twenty years ago, the old, shabby Cecil County Jail on North Street in Elkton was abandoned for the modern detention center that now serves the county from its location on Landing Lane. The passing of the old jail was largely unnoticed, it routinely having been maligned as a lockup that somehow managed to outlive its usefulness in just 128 years. That old prison has an interesting history, one that evolved from the days of gallows and whipping posts. Continued