Yuma Territorial Prison - Yuma, AZ
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saopaulo1
N 32° 43.598 W 114° 36.878
11S E 723542 N 3623498
The Territorial Prison in Yuma, AZ.
Waymark Code: WMCH1B
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 09/07/2011
Views: 27
Arizona: The Grand Cayon State, 1940.
"The high adobe walls of the TERRITORIAL PRISON RUINS (10-4 Mon.-Sat.) , on Prison Hill at Penitentiary Ave. and Prison Lane, are worn down and weathered. Prison Hill, a granite bluff almost blocking the Colorado River, with hundreds of miles of desert in every direction was an ideal site. Despite the prison's location and the cooperation of the Indians, who were paid fifty dollars for every escaped convict they returned, jail break occurred frequently..." Page 274
The prison is still open to the public and is a popular tourist attraction. The prison sits along the Colorado river. Visitors can view the older cells for $3.
Still on the site is the main guard tower. The books comment on this with: "The Main Guard Tower, adjoining the Entrance Gate, housed a Gatling gun that was used to quell outbreaks"
Also a few feet is the prison cemetery. The cemetery is a series of rock mounds. This differs than what the books said back in the 1940s. Then the cemetery had "weathered redwood markers still showing the number, name, and date of death of each convict."
Book: Arizona
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 274
Year Originally Published: 1940
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