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THE JAIL TODAY Tweed is a little haven that is central to the major cities including Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal. Items of interest in Tweed include Stoco Lake (home to the popular sport fish the Muskie, and Black Crappie), the heritage center, the shoe tree, our artistic fire hydrants, and more! NORTH AMERICA’S SMALLEST JAILHOUSE TWEED, ONTARIO Today, the Jailhouse is under the Municipality’s domain and is used as a Visitor Information Center. The O.P.P now have their own office in the Municipality building for their meetings. Students work at the Jail during the summer and provide tours of the Jail, information about Tweed and its events and the surrounding area. Come visit North America’s Smallest Jailhouse, sign the guest book and get your picture taken with the cut-out jailbirds ! The Tweed jail was built in 1898, after the original jail in JAIL BREAK JAIL CLOSING In the mid 1930’s, there was a jail break. The marks from breaking the hinges on the door are still visible today. The jail closed in 1950 due to a lack of crime in the town. A lot of men in the logging industry left town, due to a lack of work and therefore the jail closed due to a lack of mischief. After the closing of the jail, it was unoccupied for a time until the Ontario Provincial Police renovated the building to make it into a community police station, getting rid of the three smaller cells to create one large cell and to have room for a desk. the Municipality building flooded. R.F Houston designed the jail and was paid $10.00 for his work. The total cost to build the jail was $350.00. NOTORIOUS The jailhouse officially opened in 1900. GIDEON PRISONER BUTTS Village constables who watched over vagrants were paid 20 cents per vagrant, or 30 cents if they had to feed the prisoners. The most notorious prisoner the Tweed Most of the men who ended up in the Jailhouse obtained was a man named jail were vagrants whom were charged Gideon Butts from Cloyne area. Butts with minor offences. However, during murdered his wife in 1903 and spent the the Great Depression in the 1930’s the night after his capture in the Tweed Jail. number of vagrants dramatically The following day he was transferred to increased and the jail was used a larger facility. frequently. TWEED JAILHOUSE 61 VICTORIA ST. 613-478-9814 TWEED MUNICIPALITY 255 METCALF ST. 613-478-2535 OR…. VISIT US AT ww.tweed.ca