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Prison Records from the Allegheny County Workhouse and Inebriate Asylum
Allegheny County

In response to a petition from the Board of Prison Inspectors of Allegheny county concerned with the rising costs of maintaining prisoners at the county jail and the increasingly crowded conditions there, in 1866 the state legislature authorized the construction of a workhouse in Allegheny County. The Allegheny County Workhouse and Inebriate Asylum at Claremont (Blawnox) admitted its first inmates in 1869, two years before the buildings and wall were completed. The workhouse was officially closed in 1971.

The following comprises a collection of records for the Allegheny County Workhouse and Inebriate Asylum throughout it’s 102 year existence from 1869-1971. Most of these manuscripts can only be seen in person at the Pennsylvania State Archives, but some of them have been digitized and can now be seen online. It should be assumed if there is no online link to a database or manuscript, than that data is only able to be viewed in person.

Table of Contents
Board of Managers Records
Allegheny County Workhouse Account Books, 1904-1940
Allegheny County Workhouse Admission and Discharge Books, 1870-1877
Allegheny County Workhouse Cash Book, 1866-1871
Allegheny County Workhouse Contract Book, 1867
Allegheny County Workhouse Minute Books, 1866-1971
Allegheny County Workhouse Oaths of Officials, 1888-1912
Allegheny County Workhouse Pay Rolls of Officers and Employees, 1877-1909
Allegheny County Workhouse Visitor’s Records, 1871-1880
Allegheny County Workhouse Population Records
Allegheny County Workhouse Conduct Books, 1870-1906, 1915-1919
Allegheny County Workhouse Daily Sick Call Books, 1896-1940
Allegheny County Workhouse Discharge and Descriptive Dockets, 1873-1971
Allegheny County Workhouse Escaped Prisoner Books, 1882-1971
Allegheny County Workhouse Hospital Record Books, 1913-1939, 1968-1970
Allegheny County Workhouse Prison Register Books, 1869-1951
Allegheny County Workhouse Punishment Books, 1870-1873, 1880-1892, 1904-1959
Allegheny County Workhouse Register to Include All Prisoners Tried and Sentenced to Hard Labor Books, 1869-1971
Printed Books and Manuscripts
Allegheny County Workhouse Reports, 1873-
Laws and Rules of the Allegheny County Workhouse and Inebriate Asylum
Feeding of Inmates of Allegheny County Workhouse
Discharge and Descriptive Dockets, 1873-1971
Register to Include All Prisoners Tried and Sentenced to Hard Labor Books, 1869-1971
Additional Reading
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Arthur Lattin in the Pennsylvania, U.S., Prison, Reformatory, and Workhouse Records, 1829-1971
Name: Arthur Lattin
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth: abt 1903
Pennsylvania
occ: Labor
Res: Pennsylvania, USA
Received: 3 Oct 1931
Institution: Allegheny County Workhouse
Prisoner Nr: 28004
wt admit: 125
wt disch: 127
crime: A&B & HS?
date of sentence: 28 Sep 1930
sentence: 6 mo
Potter
methodist
discharged: Dec 28, '31
served: 3 mo

also from Potter Co:
28003 Fred Burton 28 Labor Lar Methodist
28005 Milford Robinson 22 Labor A&B methodist

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Register to Include All Prisoners Tried and Sentenced to Hard Labor Books; Series: 197m.16

Allegheny County Workhouse
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Allegheny County Workhouse was a prison that was located adjacent to the town of Blawnox, Pennsylvania. Its full name was "Allegheny County Workhouse and Inebriate Asylum". The first inmates were received in 1869, and the facility closed in 1971.

The prison housed mostly inmates convicted of minor offenses. Many of those prisoners maintained a farm of about 1100 acres (445 ha), which contained apple orchards as well as many other crops and many different types of farm animals.[1]

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