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The city has listed the old York County jail on Chestnut Street among six endangered historic sites.
\nSome years ago, a developer eyed the massive prison for a restaurant, but plans never moved forward. Now, city officials are looking for any investor to save the six-story structure in the revived Sovereign Bank Stadium area. …<\/p>\n


\nThe prison – or its older, now-demolished cellblock – served as the location for capital punishment up to 1915 when Pennsylvania centralized its executions at Rockview.
\nCurtis Sipple, alias Robert Hicks, was the first county resident to be executed at Rockview in 1919. He had killed two bunkmates with a metal bar as part of robbery plan in the railroad town of Cly in northeastern York County.
\nRelated prison-related posts and photographs:<\/strong>
\n–Wanted: ‘Inmates’ to fill old York County prison<\/a>
\n– If Boston can turn prison in hotel, York can … <\/a>
\n– York’s Chestnut Street fortress bad symbol of York’s past<\/a>
\n– For sale: 100-year-old fortress-like prison<\/a>
\n– York’s Chestnut Street fortress bad symbol of York’s past<\/a>
\n– Old York County jail on endangered list<\/a>
\n– Prison listing brings back food loaf memories<\/a>
\n– ‘There were only so many cells in that old stone prison<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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