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Land of Dreams, Imaginings, and Visions: A History of the Mid-Orange Correctional Facility Site from the Indian Era to the Present
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- Published: 01 January 2012 01 January 2012
The Early Period: Fishermen and Farmers
The nearly eight hundred acres that comprise the former Mid-Orange Correctional Facility have for centuries been a place of dreams, imaginings and visions. For at least a millennium Algonkian-speaking Lenape Indians fished in the crystal clear waters of Wickham Lake, experimenting with new forms of weirs and netsinkers.