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NRHP reference No. 96000987 [1] Added to NRHP. September 19, 1996. The West Virginia Penitentiary is a gothic -style prison located in Moundsville, West Virginia. Now withdrawn and retired from prison use, it operated from 1866 to 1995. Currently, the site is maintained as a tourist attraction, museum, training facility, and filming location.
The prison opened in 1914 [3] and shuttered in 1975, [4] after it was deemed to be too costly to run despite it being a self-sufficient institution. Prior to the construction of Highway 69 , Burwash was an isolated location in the Wanapitei River valley, [ 4 ] accessible only from a nearby station on the Canadian Northern Railway (today's ...
This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. Defunct prisons in the United States by state (30 C) Defunct prisons in Washington, D.C. (2 P)
Some for-sale former correctional facilities, such as the Litchfield Jail in Litchfield, Conn., for example, have remained on the market for years without a bite, due to their undesirable penal ...
The Old Atlanta Prison Farm is an abandoned, city-owned prison complex in southwest DeKalb County in the U.S. state of Georgia. From approximately 1920 to 1990, the farm was worked by prisoners to produce food for the region's prison system. [1][2] There are limited historical records detailing the operation of the farm, especially after 1965.
April 14, 1983. The Ohio State Reformatory (OSR), also known as the Mansfield Reformatory, is a historic prison located in Mansfield, Ohio in the United States. It was built between 1886 and 1910 and remained in operation until 1990, when a United States Federal Court ruling (the 'Boyd Consent Decree') ordered the facility to be closed.
Coordinates: 43°12′06″N 73°44′54″W. One of the closed buildings at Mount McGregor in 2016. Mount McGregor Correctional Facility was a medium security prison for male inmates in the Town of Moreau, Saratoga County, New York, United States. It was served by the Wilton, New York, post office and included 100 structures on over 1,000 acres.
"Sale of Estates, Pictures and Slaves in the Rotunda at New Orleans" by William Henry Brooke from The Slave States of America (1842) by James Silk Buckingham depicts a slave sale at the St. Louis Hotel, sometimes called the French Exchange. Slave traders traveled to farms and small towns to buy enslaved people to bring to market. [2]