It was getting old. They built a new one. It was more cost effective. The prison was started in the 1860's I think.
It was actually open from 1836 until 2004.
Yes age
Yes they did
Yes the tour starts off with a half hour history lesson.
Cool
Yes they cover pretty much the entire history
The history tour goes in to a lot of details. Operations, inmate life, officer life, etc. Im sure they covered that too. If not you could always ask.
Pretty sure they did.
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