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Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park

Yuma, AZ

Cells, guard structures and exhibits survive from the territorial prison that operated here from 1876 to 1909. The hilltop site overlooks the Colorado River and preserves one of Arizona's strongest lawful prison-history destinations.

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

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Source: azstateparks.com/yuma-territorial

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