This morning we returned to the Yuma Marketplace, one of the fleamarkets we had gone to on Saturday. We had only gone about halfway through the market on Saturday so we thought we would check out the other half. There was no admission fee charged today.
After a lunch at Famous Daves Barbeque Restaurant we went to the Yuma Territorial Prison State Historical Park. This was Arizona Territory's first prison opened in 1876 and closed in 1909. There were 3,069 (including 39 women) prisoners incarcerated here during the 33 years of operation. The most common offense was grand larceny. Several women and men were imprisoned for adultery. Executions were not done at the prison because county government administered capital punishment. After the prison closed the Yuma Union High School occupied the buildings for several years. Later empty cells were occupied by hobos riding the trains and homeless families during the depression were sheltered here.
We've had another sunny day with lots of gusting winds causing the atmosphere to become smoggy. We expected the mountains to look hazy as they did last night but to our surprise they were very clear appearing this evening. The sunsets have been just beautiful here. The western sky has hues of orange and gold while the eastern sky takes on purple and pink colors.
