Old Jail Museum Contents

The jail museum has two floors. Visitors enter downstairs, directly into a very small display area consisting of Native American Artifacts and some artifacts unique to Patrick Henry, Louisa’s representative to the House of Burgesses in 1765.

Also downstairs, is the United Daughters of the Confederacy memorial to Louisa’s Confederate veterans. This room is maintained in accordance with the will of Miss Martha Overton. Miss Overton left money and artifacts and a request that a museum be established.

Upstairs, the D.A.R. Room contains household artifacts from the Revolutionary War era.

Also upstairs, one room contains numerous artifacts commemorating the Mineral mining era. Goldminer’s scales, apothecary scales, a telegraph key and other items used in the Mineral mining operations are on display.

Two other upstairs rooms are noteworthy. One room is a reference library, the other, called the Porter Wright Room, contains Society archives. The archives contain numerous papers, documents, and books dating to before Louisa County was formed in 1742.