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Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park
Marker detail: Post Abandonment Photo
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| Near Prison Hill Road, 0.5 miles north of Harold C. Giss Parkway. |
| | The main cellblock was built to house up to 204 prisoners, but at times the Superintendent's report stated that up to 240 prisoners were kept here. Each cell was approximately 9 foot X 12 foot and could hold six prisoners. When space became limited, . . . — — Map (db m158292) HM |
| Near Prison Hill Road, 0.5 miles north of Harold C. Giss Parkway. |
| | Anything a prisoner could not make himself or barter for, he had to do without. As an inmate, forty-eight hours a week were spent working in the fields, quarry, adobe yard, or on assignment in a shop. Whether you needed a tin cup or a new . . . — — Map (db m158293) HM |
| Near Prison Hill Road, 0.5 miles north of Harold C. Giss Parkway. |
| | In 1904 an incorrigible ward, consisting of five steel cages, was constructed on this site. The total budget for the building, including steel cages, corrugated iron roofing and lumber, was five hundred dollars. Approximately 4,000 adobe bricks, . . . — — Map (db m158296) HM |
| Near Prison Hill Road, 0.5 miles north of Harold C. Giss Parkway. |
| | The concrete slabs before you are all that remain of an early adobe structure. Originally, this building was where prisoners were processed, ate meals, and received medical attention. Later it housed offices, storerooms, barbershop and the two cells . . . — — Map (db m158297) HM |
| Near Prison Hill Road, 0.5 miles north of Harold C. Giss Parkway. |
| | Yuma of the 1870's had limited marketplaces. Goods were brought in by steamships or many days' journey through hostile country. Calamities along the journey claimed belongings and supplies more than once. The government compensated by stocking as . . . — — Map (db m158298) HM |
| Near South Levee Road east of Prison Hill Road, on the right when traveling south. |
| | In memory of
the inmates, who lost their life
while serving their sentence, at the
Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma
Aldrete, Simon • Alejandra • Alveres, Thomas • Armbula, Tomas • Arnett, William • Arvizu, Gregorio • Baca, Antonio • . . . — — Map (db m51636) HM |
Apr. 26, 2024
