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Mill Point Federal Prison was a minimum security
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camp located west of Mill Point in Pocahontas County,
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. It was built on a plot in
Monongahela National Forest The Monongahela National Forest is a U.S. National Forest, national forest located in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, US. It protects over of federally managed land within a proclamation boundary that includes much of the Po ...
adjacent to the
Cranberry Glades Cranberry Glades—also known simply as The Glades—are a cluster of five small, boreal-type bogs in southwestern Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. This area, in the Allegheny Mountains at about , is protected as the Cranberry ...
. In operation from 1938 to 1959, all buildings were demolished after its closure.


Notable inmates

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