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August 7, 2004 John Rottet [/assets/story/image_buynow.comp]
Look closely at the brick walkways of the Governor's Mansion in downtown Raleigh, and you'll learn the names of some of the prisoners who created them. When the inmates, now called trustees, finished their day's work making bricks, they would sign one brick on top of their stack to identify the pile they had been working on. According to Pat Brock at the Capital Area Visitors Center, these bricks were likely made and installed when the mansion wsa built, between 1883 and 1891.

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