Old Richmond Prison

The Richmond prison was built in the year of 1834. The reason this prison was build was to lock up the most rebellious slaves that was on St.Croix when slavery was effect. Moses Gotlieb also known as Buddhoe, who help lead the 1848 emancipation was one of the prisoners at the Richmond prison. Queen Mary was also a  prisoner in this prison and she was the one who brought up and lead the 1878 fireburn. This building is full of history and alot of people doesn't know about it. When we visited the old prison,  it was covered in grass and had alot of insects. V. Celeste Fahie was our tour guide and she gave us a pencil, a piece of white printing paper, and something that looks like a concept map but she calls it a mind map. She gave us the paper to draw what we saw at the prison and the mind map to come up with ideas to transform this prison into something that would be beneficial to the people of the virgin islands. We came up with alot of cool ideas that will be effective when the time and money is right. We saw alot of writings on the walls about how the prisoners felt about being imprisoned and the words was not very nice. Our very own Mario Moorhead was held in the prison for one day in the 1970's but we still don't know when was the last time the prison was used.