Comments on: Atlanta Prison Farm

By: roger

roger — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 02:12:26 +0000

Willie B is buried there adjacent to Maud the elephant.
At one time the prisoners grew all their own food, had cows and hogs .

By: Corinne

Corinne — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:44:59 +0000

Mrs. Brannen you mentioned that the prison farm was an aweome operation. At that time I did not know about actual operation/production and I would be interested when you have available time.

By: Corinne

Corinne — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:40:30 +0000

Thank you, Mrs. Brannen. Do you know if any other zoo animals were buried there? It is amazing to see the place covered with kudzu. It looks like “The World Without People” movie. I had lunch there, as a guest, on a few weekends in the sixties. It was home to some people that had no other home.

By: Mrs. Ed Brannen

Mrs. Ed Brannen — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:40:11 +0000

I could not believe the photos of the prison – kudsu in one 1) year is amazing x 15,scarey! Anyone interested out there I can relate a fairly comprehensive day to day operation of the prison and yes the elephant was buried there and the city then collected pennies for a baby elephant they named “Pennie”. More?

By: Mrs. Ed Brannen

Mrs. Ed Brannen — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:22:03 +0000

I can tell you about the prison between 1950and 1956 – Ed was the Asst. Supt. at that time and I worked in the prison as Acct./Sect. In retrospect it was an awsome operation and probably would be invaluable to all concerned if adapted to 2010 Atlanta

By: donoho

donoho — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:13:27 +0000

so is this place still there, or did it burn down completely?

By: jim

jim — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:41:14 +0000

Its still there, that place was always boring though. The fire only took out the top half it loks pretty cool.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:54:32 +0000

The Atlanta Prison Farm caught fire today. No reports yet of how extensive yet – should be out tomorrow. I’m betting they let it burn completely, as the report said they were fighting it “defensively” and letting it burn itself out. They said it “wasn’t worth” letting any firefighters get injured over. Probably homeless people trying to stay warm.

I’m glad you have these photos to preserve it. Good call, great work.

By: Corinne

Corinne — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:23:11 +0000

dj,

When you went to the defunct Atlanta prison farm did you happen to see the burial site of an elephant named Maude? Thanks.

By: dj

dj — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:53:15 +0000

I had seen the sign for this place years ago on Moreland Ave but assumed that it was an active facility. Somehow I stumbled upon your site. So I went down there last sunday and checked it out for my own self. Very cool place! Thanks for the tip. Where next? Hmmmmmmm…..