I vaguely recall stories of a prison that used to be in the area. The prisoners would climb poles or some structure to see over the wall. The people on the outside thought they looked like apes climbing trees at the zoo.There was an area where the bars were located along Shaw Street beside the mill village that was called "The Ape Yard" by the older folks in the Poe Mill (my drunkard granddad included). I never knew how it got that name.