Break In at National Prisoner of War Museum

When park staff opened the Prisoner of War Museum early last Friday morning, they discovered that someone had thrown a rock through a large window in the lobby of the museum. The donation box and its contents were found to be missing. The donation box, which is made of clear Plexiglas and is designed in the shape of the POW Museum, was attached to a wooden pedestal. Visitors to the museum place small monetary donations in the box, which are then used to fund a variety of projects to benefit the visiting public. The incident is being investigated by the Macon County Sheriff’s Department.