Classic Concord Photo – Tue, 17 Jun 2014

This is a photo of Merrimack Jail in 1916, at the current location of Concord High School (cue snarky teenager saying it looks like the use hasn’t changed much in almost 100 years). We’re guessing the term maximum security wasn’t invented until prisons started looking less like idyllic farmhouses and more like not-so-idyllic farmhouses. What, your farmhouse doesn’t have barbed-wire rings on top of the fence and steel bars in the windows? Some farm, we say.
This is a photo of Merrimack Jail in 1916, at the current location of Concord High School (cue snarky teenager saying it looks like the use hasn’t changed much in almost 100 years). We’re guessing the term maximum security wasn’t invented until prisons started looking less like idyllic farmhouses and more like not-so-idyllic farmhouses. What, your farmhouse doesn’t have barbed-wire rings on top of the fence and steel bars in the windows? Some farm, we say.

This is a photo of Merrimack Jail in 1916, at the current location of Concord High School (cue snarky teenager saying it looks like the use hasn’t changed much in almost 100 years). We’re guessing the term maximum security wasn’t invented until prisons started looking less like idyllic farmhouses and more like not-so-idyllic farmhouses. What, your farmhouse doesn’t have barbed-wire rings on top of the fence and steel bars in the windows? Some farm, we say.

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