Historical Moments - Stonewall Jackson

[@TanTan-hr7uq]

Got to explore this place growing up with friends... such a Erie place....

[@joe7827]

1973 for me.

[@robertdubois2917]

Stonewall Jackson was Not killed in the Battle of Chancelorsville. He died from pneumonia as a complication from having his left arm amputated. Jackson was not mortally wounded on May 2nd, 1863, however his arm had to be amputated. Lee ordered Jackson be taken to Guinea Station in Caroline County, VA, twenty-seven miles from Chancelorsville. Jackson arrived May 4th. Jackson was recovering, and improving until pneumonia was realized May 7th. Jackson died 3 days later on May 10th. Not from being shot.

[@justinbritt5556]

I just don’t understand why there was praise for this school. After the stories I’ve heard, James P Cook should not have been praised by no means. This was just another way for him to make money. The caretakers abused these young men, physically, mentally, and sexually! Wished they would bulldoze all those buildings down!!!!!

[@SpaceGhost999]

I'm sure you feel noble in your comment. But consider this. What do you think would have happened to a bunch of little boys sentenced to prison with adult male murders, rapists, and thieves? Because that's what was happening before places like this existed. There are some horror stories from SJTS but I'm sure theyre.much more tame than the stories of children convicted of minor offenses chained to adult rapists and murderers....

[@babybluek1d127]

@@SpaceGhost999 Consider this. A little research and you will find that the stories of Stonewall Jackson Training School are by far not “milder” or “tamer” than the stories of boys being locked up with adults. The boys were essentially sentenced to the same fate they would have endured in an adult prison. The boys were violently beaten within an inch of their life, raped, experimented on, and physically and psychologically tortured here. Many died here too. Either as a result of negligent homicide (There was an instance where a boy fell off the back of a work truck and cracked his skull open. The cottage parents just watched as he bled out and anyone who helped the boy was beaten severely.) or from being beaten/tortured to death (homicide). So while i’m sure you felt noble in your comment, it was made in willful ignorance because all of this information can easily be found.

[@SpaceGhost999]

@@babybluek1d127 not to mention, you're calling me ignorant because I don't believe on ghost stories. I never said that the boys were treated well. EVEN though, there are also a lot of FIRST hand accounts of men that went there and had great stories to tell. So chase your ghost stories all you'd like. But I doubt you.ever set foot on the property the way I have many times. And yes, there were plenty of horrible.things done there, but I believe willful ignorance is thinking it was just a concentration camp for youths and nothing good ever happened there. It hasn't got a thing to do with nobility you condescending tw@t.

[@Minrathicus]

@@SpaceGhost999 if they had gotten a day in court they wouldnt have been in there in the first place.the so called 'staff' in this place should have been put in with those murderers and rapists.

[@alexmayhew8989]

That completely and totally whitewashed all the bad shit that happened on that property. When you go there and stand on the property tell me you cant feel it.

[@SpaceGhost999]

I documented the property multiple times in 2010. Didn't feel it at all.

[@SpaceGhost999]

@@babybluek1d127 a little research, lol..that's genuinely funny. I'm from that area, and I've been obsessed with that place most of my life. I'm very aware of the things that happened there. I don't believe in ghosts and spirits though. So I didn't not sense even a little bit of anything supernatural. They're just old shells of buildings that are rotting to the ground.

[@babybluek1d127]

@@SpaceGhost999 My reply was intended for a different comment. Don’t know how it ended up here but anyways… I live very close to the school and pass by it every day but, I’m not even speaking on spirits, as i’ve never seen any there, i’m just speaking on the actual overwhelming feelings of anguish and horror as you pass it. Can you really sit here and tell me you don’t feel the pain and despair when you are standing in the presence of that horrid place? I’ve visited places that were just “old shells” and they’ve never made me feel the way this site does.

[@SpaceGhost999]

@@babybluek1d127 no, because I do not associate buildings with things that may or may not have happened in them. A building is just a composition of wood, metal, and brick. It harbors nothing that humans did in it.

[@wendycomeau9004]

It's like once you step on the property, you get a really strange feeling... I'm just saying bc everyone has a different belief.

[@madammim694]

that whole complex needs to be taken down. its a huge eyesore and too much money wasted on fencing and barbed wire. wipe it out and make a park or something useful. our property taxes spent on fencing to keep us off the property is ridiculous.

[@horsley123108]

that would be a great idea. Unfortunately the state decided that this torture property should be a historic land mark and now it cant be torn down .

[@joelwallace7604]

‘73-‘74.

[@joe7827]

Me in 73 , worked for a butcher.

[@kellymorrow5280]

I was there in 1999 and never heard anything about ghosts stories I know on Thursdays they had chicken day and it was awesome lol J.Robinson

[@TheZomiehunter]

Why do they dodge the truth about what really happened there ? And why in the hell dont they keep it up if there so damn proud of it ? Two sides to every coin ! Now do a post from the other side of that coin , called : jackson, when hell came to concord ,nc !!!! (Its fitting )

[@MalaineGill]

Ken Nix ~ Im Sure there are Horror Stories They as with any Other Institutions that House Criminal Offenders ~ There are Always People Who are Harmful to Others & Lacking Compassion to Do the Job They Were Hired to Do ~

[@TheZomiehunter]

Big history lession here for everyone !