Inmates work the Portsmouth Quarry in 1911. Photo courtesy of Canada's Penitentiary Museum Collection In the mid-1800’s Portsmouth Park was a busy limestone quarry worked by inmates from Kingston Penitentiary. Decades later, renamed Garrigan Park, it was home to the City of Kingston’s popular youth summer parks program. Kingston’s best fastball players played in the … Continue reading Portsmouth’s Garrigan Park: A Once Thriving Limestone Quarry Has A Long History
