Old Prison

Walking Tour Stop 5

Visitors are surprised and delighted to see an English looking castle standing in the heart of downtown Carlisle, but they wonder what it is and when it was built. For 130 years it was the Cumberland County ...

Old Dauphin County Prison

The second Dauphin County Prison stood on the southeast corner of Walnut and Court Streets. Completed in 1841, it replaced a log structure erected circa 1792 at the time that the first Dauphin County Courthouse was built directly behind this ...

Near the Old Prison / À Coté de l'Ancienne Prison

The Museum in the Streets / Le Musée dans le Rue

Near the Old Prison

The Georges Hotel stood at the intersection of Main and Georges Street where there now is an empty lot. It burned to the ground leaving the three ...