Old St. Mary's Catholic Church, 2nd oldest in Catholic Church in Philadelphia. Graves include Commodore Barry, Mathew Carey (First American Publisher of Jane Austen), Bouvier family members, etc.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Eastern State Visit
From Eastern State's Web Site: "Opened in 1829 as part of a controversial movement to change the behavior of inmates through "confinement in solitude with labor," Some of America's most notorious criminals were held in the Penitentiary's vaulted, sky-lit cells, including bank robber Willie Sutton and Al Capone. After 142 years of consecutive use, Eastern State Penitentiary was completely abandoned in 1971, and now stands, a lost world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers."
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