Cast Iron Fort Smith Arkansas Prison Lock

FORT SMITH LOCK, a heavy duty cast iron lock with an antique finish. It comes with 2 keys and a brass tag with "Fort Smith Prison, Ark" It measures 3 inches wide and 5 inches tall. The Fort Smith jail served as the facility for holding prisoners in the Western District of Arkansas. Until 1896, the jurisdiction of this court encompassed all or parts of Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma), home to the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks and Seminoles, tribes the U.S. removed from their homelands in the Southeast during the 1830s.