You Can Visit This Once Abandoned Notorious Prison in East Tennessee

In Morgan County, near the tiny community of Petros – right in the shadow of the Cumberland Plateau- they’ve taken hell on Earth, shined it up and used it to market a peculiar concoction of horrid history, fabricated ghosts, mountain likker and classic Southern café dining.

For more than 100 years, Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary was well known as one of the worst places on Earth. For instance, something akin to the remote Siberian prisons in Russia but with presumably milder winters. From 1896 until it closed for good in 2009, Brushy was a dark mark on Tennessee’s reputation, a stain on its collective soul. The end of the line, they called it. It was the last stop for the doomed, the evil and the lost causes. It was brutal and deadly. There was very little hope for any soul that crossed its threshold........

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