The Old Meriwether County Jail in Greenville

 Built in 1896 in an Italian Villa style, it is now a private residence. In 1948, a man named Wilson Turner was incarcerated here by a corrupt sheriff who released him so a bootlegger named John Wallace could kill him in Moreland. Wallace, a large landowner who lived in the Stovall area and was in the Masonic Lodge there, was later tried and convicted of the murder and in 1950 went to the electric chair. It was unusual in that such a wealthy white landowner was tried and convicted based mostly on testimony from African-Americans. Wallace was also the only Free Mason in the state and maybe nation to ever be tried, convicted and executed. The book "Murder in Coweta County" is the story of the crime.
Andy Sarge