The following blog posts were originally published by Carling Marshall-Luymes on her personal blog while she was an intern for the Huron County Museum & Huron Historic Gaol in 2007. You can see the exhibit on the history of capital punishment on permanent display...
UPDATE: Due to the snow, the main entrance on Gloucester Street is not available. If you are joining us at the Gaol tomorrow, please use the Napier Street entrance on the south side of the building. Parking is available along Napier. Join us for a guided tour of the...
The Huron Historic Gaol is a national historic site and Huron County’s first municipal building. Between 1841 and 1972, it not only served as a correctional facility, but as the site of Huron’s fist County Council meeting, its first courthouse, and as an...
All Ghost Tours are now sold out! Is this place haunted? Decide for yourself! A rare chance to visit the Huron Historic Gaol after dark! Two tours every Friday night Oct. 4th to November 1st, 6:45-8:15 p.m. or 8:30-10:00 p.m. This guided tour shines a flashlight into...
Behind the Bars is an interactive tour of the Huron Historic Gaol where visitors can meet in-costume actors portraying real inmates and staff from the past! Doors open at 7:00 pm, and the last tour begins at 8:00pm. Visitors will have different starting points to...
