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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 162 (part 2)

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[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The prison grounds contain one hundred and thirty acres, and the wharf is approachable by vessels drawing twelve feet of water. The prison keeper's house, work-shops, (fee, are built of rough dressed stone. The prison for the males is 480 feet in length from north to south, and 44 in width, fronting towards the west or Hudson river. This building is five stories high, containing a line of 100 cells in each story on the west side, and as many more on the east side, making 1000 cells in all. The western yard is enclosed by two buildings, forty feet wide, and two stories high, which are occupied as the kitchen, hospital, chapel, work-shops,

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