Old Nassau County Jail (Amelia Island Museum of History)

The old Nassau County Jail, now home to the Amelia Island Museum of History, is tied to local legend about a pirate hanged on gallows once behind the building. Amelia Island really was seized in 1817 by the French privateer Louis-Michel Aury, though the historical record has him dying elsewhere in 1821 rather than being executed here — the museum's own ghost-tour lore nonetheless holds that a condemned pirate slit his own throat the night before his hanging rather than face the crowd, survived just long enough to be executed anyway, and can still be heard moaning near the old gallows site, sometimes appearing with a gash across his throat.