About 20 years ago, Gerald Swart spotted his town jail sitting in a neighbor’s iron pile. It was just a big cage, really: a square box with iron lattice and a couple of chains hanging off a side door. A black sign with amateurish lettering said “GOFF CITY JAIL.” “It used to be right north of the bank in Goff when I was growing up,” Swart, 82, said of the jail. “They’d lock up drunks and keep ‘em in there overnight. But that ended sometime around the ‘50s.” Swart bought the jail from the neighbor for $11 and hauled it over to his property. It sits there to this day, not far from a building he calls Skeezix’s Toy Museum, where Swart houses his collection of vintage toy trucks, tractors and other farm implements. “I’ve tried to research its history,” Swart said of the jail, “but all the reports from those days, they’re all lost.”
Source: KC Star Local News
