Jailhouse RockText Box: Home Text Box: On Friday we went to the Old Jail Museum in Warrenton. It was very interesting. The lady who was the tour guide was fun, informative, and wowed the kids with all the ghost stories (which she was totally into!). Text Box: This is the standard cell, which was pretty large. The doors were so cool, they were about 6 inches thick with this half circle of bars on the interior of the cell. This was a conversation door? They were heavy! Text Box: This was the maximum security cells. They had life sized figures dressed up in this area. They included Cary Grant and Nixon! Text Box: This is the exercise yard, where the hangings also took place. Text Box: Audrey pretends to make butter in the kitchen of the jail. Text Box: The jail museum also had other things from days gone by...oddly enough, this dental office was in one of the cell blocks. There was also a safe, which was cool to look inside. That door was really heavy too! Outside the museum was this war memorial (right). Text Box: Lafayette had no idea when he stepped on this stone that it would become such an artifact! The kids? They found it to be a comfy seat! Text Box: Things we didn’t know before: Prisoners were only fed once a day. Many died from the poor living conditions. The ‘exercise’ yard was also space used to raise chickens and pigs, and a garden. The whole in the exercise yard is the remains of a root cellar maintained by the prisoners. The door was used to remove bodies and bring in coal. The jail was in operation from 1808-1966, 143 years! This is amazing considering how ‘primitive’ the jail is. The word Gaol (no, not goal) is the Old English spelling of the word Jail. The upstairs cell had a fireplace, and was the ladies stall. It was to provide heat to children incarcerated with their moms. Warrenton is named after General Joseph Warren Other interesting displays