The first thing you notice about Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary is the bone-chilling cold of the place. The proprietors of the century-old prison, in recent years a tourist attraction in a ...

(WATE) — A common theme among the most haunted places are areas where people died frequently, and one old prison in East Tennessee fits right into that theme. Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary ...

PETROS, Tenn. — Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Morgan County once held some of the worst criminals in Tennessee. The historic penitentiary is now a tourist attraction and several former ...

Being imprisoned with violent criminals in a remote, hard-knocks prison like the infamous Brushy Mountain Tennessee State Penitentiary is not something I would ever want to experience.

The historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Morgan County used to be the place nobody wanted to go. Serving time in Brushy meant you were a violent criminal — likely the worst of the worst.

PETROS — For 113 years, three walls and a cliff alongside Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary were designed to keep some of the most violent criminals locked inside. But in 2009, when the prison ...

When the whistle blew, everyone in Petros, Tennessee, knew it was lunchtime at Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. To the outside world, it was the place that housed James Earl Ray, Martin Luther ...

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee, was transformed into a local distillery called Brushy Mountain. Brushy Mountain uses spring water from nearby Frozen Head State Park The ...

Tickets are now on sale for the 2024 Historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary Annual Summer Series. This cool summer series is held in a venue set in the Cumberland Mountains of East Tennessee.

PETROS, Tenn. — Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Morgan County once held some of the worst criminals in Tennessee. The historic penitentiary is now a tourist attraction and several former ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PETROS, Tenn. (AP) — When the whistle ...