Lower Lake Stone Jail Lower Lake Stone Jail Lower Lake Stone Jail, in Lower Lake, California, is a one-room jail claimed to be the smallest jail in the United States, was erected in 1876 of stone locally quarried and reinforced with iron. During the days of the first quicksilver operations of the Sulphur Bank Mine, lasting from 1873 to 1883, rapid town growth and the urgent need for civil order necessitated the building of a jail. Stephen Nicolai, one of the first stonemasons in Lower Lake, built the jail from local materials with the help of Theodore and John Copsey. The tiny jail is
Lake George State Forest the Mary Farms and Dexter Tracts, which encompasses land between the St. Johns River to the west, and Barberville, US 17, and De Leon Springs State Park to the east, and south to the banks of Lake Dexter, Spring Garden Creek, and the Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge. Lake George State Forest should not be confused with the Lake George Forest, a separate property to the immediate north which is jointly owned by Volusia County and the St. Johns River Water Management District ("SJRWMD"), or the Lake George Conservation Area, a site owned by the SJRWMD. Prior to European settlement,