The Big House

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April
17
The Big House
Newark Senior Center
April
26
The Big House
Milton Public Library

Speaker: Steve Renzi

Suitable for Schools · Grades 9–12

This story is about the fascinating history of the New Castle County Workhouse that includes its opening as a reform institution in 1901, it was the site of a lynching, the hiring of the first women prison guards in the United States and a decade-long experiment in the 1920s where the inmates ran the institution.