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Rutland Prison Camp Ruins

Rutland, MA

Concrete foundations, tunnels, root cellars and other remnants of an early twentieth-century prison farm are slowly disappearing into the woods. The complex once housed minor offenders and operated a large agricultural program before being abandoned in the 1930s; the ruins are now accessible on public recreation land.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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