
Historic Campus Walking Tour
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Walking tour of the historic former prison site that is the Workhouse Art Center campus.

Walking tour of the historic former prison site that is the Workhouse Art Center campus.
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Restored 1996 disappearance footage guides a timed, hour‑long haunted trail at Workhouse Arts Center, plus a flashlight Cell Block tour, music, karaoke, food trucks. $35 a night ticket.
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History professor Jason Higgins discusses his award‑winning book Prisoners After War, followed by a signing, at the McGuireWoods Gallery, Workhouse Arts Center.