It stood on Amos Street, now our Tenth, close to the river and was an imposing structure for its time--two hundred feet in length with big wings, and a stone-wall enclosure twenty feet in height.
Strange to say the Greenwichers did not object to the prison.

They were quite proud of it, and seemed to consider it rather as an acquisition than a plague spot.

No other village had a State Prison to show to visitors; Greenwich held its head haughtily in consequence.
A hotel keeper in 1811 put this "ad." in the _Columbia_: "A few gentlemen may be accommodated with board and lodging at this pleasant and healthy situation, a few doors from the State Prison.

The Greenwich stage passes from this to the Federal Hall and returns five times a day." Janvier says that the prison at Greenwich was a "highly volcanic institution." They certainly seemed never out of trouble there.

Behind its walls battle, murder and sudden death seemed the milder diversions.