Today’s story takes place on Lake Barkley near Eddyville, Kentucky.  It involves Kentucky’s oldest prison facility known as Kentucky State Penitentiary or “The Castle on the Cumberland.”  This facility was completed in 1886 and is the only state-run maximum security prison. 

Works Cited:

http://genealogytrails.com/ken/kypenitentiarypage1.html

https://kyhi.org/kentucky-state-penitentiary/

https://www.southernspiritguide.org/the-groaning-of-the-prisoner-kentucky-state-penitentiary/