The Detroit House of Correction, referred to as DeHoCo, is a former penitentiary complex near Detroit, Michigan. Initially located in the city of Detroit, the Detroit House of Correction was relocated Plymouth and Northville townships between 1920 and 1931 as the old “medieval” structure was considered not only antiquated but a fire hazard.
It was closed in 2009 for budgetary reasons, and the former prison is slated for demolition in 2016.
The mountains and hollers of West Virginia are dotted with the remnants of communities past, reminders of earlier times when…
Eugene Masters died in his home, a former general store, in March 2015 in Valley View, Kentucky. He was 86.
Several years ago, I was able to visit the former printing operation for the Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, once the world’s largest magazine publishing house, in Springfield, Ohio.
