Lownumba,
"The Old Gaol",
15 Vestal St.
Nantucket, Ma.
This jail is representitive of early New England penal institutions. Built in 1805, It has rough plank bunks, open privies and Iron grated windows...BUT EVEN the Nantucketers allowed many of the prisoners to GO HOME AT NIGHT , self guided..
from, Yesterdays Island/Todays Nantucket
:) TIA
Nanuck of the North