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The building is now operated as the Old Jail Museum with seasonal tours. In cell 17, there is a handprint left by Alexander Campbell, a "Molly Maguire" who was hanged in 1877, to proclaim his innocence. Legend has it that despite many attempts to remove it, including building a new wall, the mark still remains today.
Molly Maguires meeting to discuss strikes in the Pennsylvania coal mines, depicted in an 1874 illustration in Harper's Weekly.. The Molly Maguires was an Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool, and parts of the eastern United States, best known for their activism among Irish-American and Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania.
Alexander Campbell (c. 1833 – June 21, 1877) [1] was a tavern owner, who, with three other convicted Molly Maguires, was hanged for the murders of two mine operatives. Campbell proclaimed his innocence to the end, and in doing so, slapped a muddy handprint on the wall of his prison cell , declaring the mark would remain forever as a sign of ...
The museum opened for tours shortly before Ali's death in 2016. Bochetto and his business partner at the time renovated the frame house to how it looked when Ali — known then as Cassius Clay ...
As efforts to reopen the childhood museum languished, offers to move the 1,200-square-foot (111-square-meter) house to Las Vegas, Philadelphia and even Saudi Arabia were turned down, Bochetto said.
In the 1890s, John A. Moore built the museum on West Cliff Drive with a focus on specimens of local plants, animals, birds and fish, according to the Santa Cruz Sentinel. He sold souvenir books ...
"Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania—Old Jail Museum" Kenny, Kevin (1998), Making Sense of the Molly Maguires. ISBN 0-19-511631-3. Marotta, Chris (December 2001). "Discovering the Past: How one fossil collector found more than just fossils". The Spirifir. 8 (9). New York Paleontological Society. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012
It may be noteworthy that Daniel and Eugene O’Neill seemed to be accepted in Pittsburgh, amassed a fortune, and lived in an elegant mansion at the same time that the Irish immigrants of Boston and New York were badly mistreated, the Molly Maguires in Eastern Pennsylvania were brutally suppressed, and anti-Catholicism was raging through much ...