MSP tours attract wide audience
It’s peak tour season for “The bloodiest 47 acres in America.” Coming off a successful school group season, tours of the old Missouri State Penitentiary are “in full force for the Halloween season,” according to Alexandra Bobbitt, spokesperson for the Jefferson City Convention & Visitors Bureau. The Missouri State Penitentiary was built in 1836 and housed inmates for 168 years until it was decommissioned in 2004. It was the oldest operating prison west of the Mississippi and once called “The bloodiest 47 acres in America” by Time Magazine.
Source: newstribune.com
