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The haunted history of the Ohio State Reformatory

Title
The haunted history of the Ohio State Reformatory / Sherri Brake.
Author
Brake, Sherri.
Publication
Charleston, SC : History Press, 2010.

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Description
156 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Subject
  • Ohio State Reformatory > Miscellanea
  • Ohio State Reformatory
  • Haunted prisons > Ohio > Mansfield
  • Haunted prisons
  • Miscellanea
  • Ohio > Mansfield
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-156).
Contents
Mansfield, Ohio, blood on the frontier: formation and early history -- The Civil War: Camp Mordecai Bartley, death and disease -- Guilty!: the rope and the chair in Ohio history -- The birth of the Ohio State Reformatory: architect Levi Scofield and the reformatory -- Life on the inside: from prisoners and punishments to reform and rehabilitation -- Escapes and escapades: desperate men and desperate measures -- Spirits, ghosts, and shadowy encounters: they still walk the halls -- and wait in cells -- She walks Reformatory road: the ghost of Phoebe Wise -- Stone walls were his home: memories of a superintendent's son -- Exploring what lies beyond: psychics, sensitives and the entities they see.
ISBN
  • 9781596299351
  • 1596299355
LCCN
2010011655
OCLC
  • ocn569538221
  • SCSB-9441146
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library