The History Of NM’s Territorial Penitentiary Brainpower & Brownbags lecture series

Charlie Zdavesky speaks on "The History of New Mexico's Territorial Penitentiary."

In 1853, the United States Congress appropriated $20,000 for construction of a new territorial penitentiary north of Santa Fe's historic plaza, where the US Post Office is now located. More on that effort is recounted on the Web site of the Office of the State Historian: http://www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails.php?fileID=21561

Zdavesky's lecture is free and open to the public. The lecture series is usually held at the Fray Angelico Chavez History Library, 120 Washington Ave.; for large crowds, the event will be moved next door to the John Gaw Meem Meeting Room.