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Built in 1853-1854 as a theater, warehouse, and office space, this was the largest building in Wheeling at the time. During the Civil War, it became a Union military prison used mostly for the transitory holding of prisoners of war and Southern sympathizers, earning the foreboding moniker "Lincoln's Bastille." It remained a prison until 1865 and was destroyed by fire in 1868.
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Wheeling, West Virginia · United States
