The Picture of the Song 'Columbus Stockade Blues'

Today we moved on from the very agreeable State Park of Georgia Veterans to Fort Toulouse Park, just North of Montgomery, Alabama. Only to find that like most of the south at the moment it was pouring with rain. Still it is only the second lot of rain we have had since January.
One of my favourite songs is Columbus Stockade Blues and since we had to go through Columbus we could not resist looking for 'Columbus Stockade', to see if it really had existed in real life as well as song. After some searching we found that it did exist and still exists today.
Columbus Stockade was a prison and police headquarters from 1850's until it became a prison in 1906. It is still operating as a prison today. We found it in a very run down area of Columbus, standing alone close to some railway sidings. It is not even identified by name, only the historic marker enabled us to identify it.
So here is a picture of Columbus Stockade mentioned the in the song.

From 25 mar 09

I now know where I am singing about. Though the song does not identify which era it was written for, it was written in 1927.
Fascinating isn't it.