Old Idaho State Penitentiary

The Old Idaho Penitentiary State Historic Site was a useful jail from 1872 to 1973 in the western United States, east of Boise, Idaho. The main building, otherwise called the Territorial Prison, was developed in the Territory of Idaho in 1870; the domain was seven years of age when the jail was assembled, an entire two decades previously statehood. From its beginnings as a solitary cell house, the prison developed to a complex of a few particular structures encompassed by a 17-foot-high (5.2 m) sandstone divider.

The stone was quarried from the close-by edges by the occupant convicts, who likewise aided later developments. The Old Idaho Penitentiary is worked by the Idaho State Historical Society; the rise of the site is roughly 2,770 feet (845 m) above ocean level. Over its 101 long periods of task, the prison got in excess of 13,000 detainees, with a most extreme populace of somewhat more than 600. Two hundred and fifteen of the prisoners were ladies. Two celebrated detainees were Harry Orchard and Lyda Southard.

Orchard assassinated previous Governor Frank Steunenberg in 1905 and Southard was known as Idaho's Lady Bluebeard for executing a few of her spouses to gather upon their extra security. The site was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 for its noteworthiness as a Territorial Prison. The site as of now contains galleries, an arboretum and is an office oversaw by the Idaho State Historical Society.