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The Portsmouth Naval Prison, now vacant, sits at the far end of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on Seavey Island on the Maine and New Hampshire border. For over a century, "the Castle" or "the Rock," with its deceptively appealing exterior, has kept both visitors and New Hampshire residents in its thrall. Since its opening in 1908 to its decommissioning in 1974 and into the present day, myth and lore have surrounded this iconic building. For the 66...
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c2011
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"These unique documentaries bring to life this obscure building which still stands today on a bluff in the Piscataqua River adjacent to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. By using long-forgotten Navy film footage, never-before-seen photographs of outside and inside the prison, along with personal stories, meaning is given to the rusted jail cells and crumbling concrete walls that once housed over 80,000 sailors and Marines in its sixty-year...
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