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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T140000
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URL:https://www.georgiahistory.com/events/historical-marker-dedication-geo
 rgias-state-prison-farm-1899-1937/
SUMMARY:Historical Marker Dedication: Georgia’s State Prison Farm (1899-1
 937)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the dedication of a new Georgia historical m
 arker about Georgia’s State Prison Farm (1899-1937).\n\nThe dedication i
 s public and will take place on Tuesday\, May 19\, at 2:00 p.m.\, at Walte
 r B. Williams Park in Milledgeville\, Georgia. Parking is available onsite
 .\n\nThe historical marker reads:\nGeorgia’s State Prison Farm (1899-193
 7)\nAfter the Civil War\, Georgia established the State Prison Farm at thi
 s site\, creating it for women\, juveniles\, and men unable to perform con
 vict-leasing or chain gang labor. Like other states and private prisons na
 tionwide\, the prison focused on reforming inmates through daily hard labo
 r and used the inmates to address labor shortages following emancipation. 
 The agriculture-based\, 4\,000-acre facility became self-sufficient and re
 lied upon its predominantly African-American inmates’ labor. In 1924 Geo
 rgia made electrocution the method of capital punishment\, installing its 
 first electric chair at the State Prison Farm. The facility closed in 1937
  when a larger\, federally-funded state prison opened in Reidsville. The m
 en’s dormitory\, which housed the electric chair and prisoners such as L
 eo Frank and Bill Miner\, was the last standing structure until its demoli
 tion in 2018.\nErected by the Georgia Historical Society and Baldwin Count
 y Board of Commissioners
CATEGORIES:Events,Historical Markers
LOCATION:Walter B. Williams Park\, 59 GA-22\, Milledgeville\, GA\, 31061\, 
 United States
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