This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADI/614.2 Message Board Post: I think you will find the census data you are looking for in Wetumpka, COOSA COUNTY records for 1860 but it was the State Penetentiary... now it has fallen in and when I was there sev. years ago there was but little remaining of the bldg but it was near the Natl Guard Armory and is now used by the city or county for storage. Both my g. grandfather and gg. grandfather worked there as guards. I have some history of the prison. It was built in 1832 ..thats from memory but around then. That part of Coosa became Elmore County sometime shortly after the civil war.. not sure of the dates.