State prison site since 1869. Original buildings completed in 1884. First supt., W. J. Hicks. New facility finished 1983.
H-66Wake County
Where it stands. Western Boulevard in Raleigh
No, gentlemen, if I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.
Andrew JohnsonAs military governor of Tennessee, asserting that he would walk alone, to friends who offered to escort him to the statehouse, after postings of a placard saying he should be "shot on sight." (c.1862); as quoted in Andrew Johnson, President of the United States: His Life and Speeches (1866) by Lillian Foster.Born in Raleigh, 1 mi from here. Carolina Quotes record