Old Jail Museum

A must add to your Jim Thorpe itinerary! We thoroughly enjoyed our tour in the old jail museum. It's small and the tour lasts about 45 minutes, but you are given unlimited time to wander around...

I really enjoyed the Old Jail Museum and I recommend it for you and your children. It starts it's a video history lesson about the plight of the Irish in the 1800's which led to them immigrating...

Built in 1871, the facility was occupied as a jail until 1995. The Old Jail Museum located on W Broadway in Jim Thorpe is best known for where several of the Molly Maguires (an early mining union)...

Pretty underwhelming. The video didn't really connect anything. The room to get in to the tour gets really clogged with people trying to go in and buy tickets. The tour itself is memorized and...

PROS: this was one of the top two things to do in Jim Thorpe. The jail was huge, the tour took us through all the main rooms, most things were original, and it was affordable. They also have a...