Al Capone's Hide Out for Sale - Northwoods Estate in Northern Wisconsin

For $2.6 million you can own a piece of Al Capone history. This might not be the type of history that some may want glamorized, but it is a piece of American history just the same. Al Capone's "hide out" is going on the auction block. The 407 wooded acres comes complete with a stone house that has 18 inch thick walls and is overlooked by guard towers.

This is a foreclosed piece of property about 150 miles north of Minneapolis, in a town called Couderay. Al Capone owned this homestead in the late 1920s and early 1930s during Prohibition. This was the time in history when liquor was banned and the local legend has it that Capone used this place as a center for bootlegging. The property has a 37 acre lake that sea planes would land on and drop off the liquor which supplied Chicago during the Prohibition.

Up until the foreclosure the property was a tourist attraction. The property includes Capone's home, a caretakers house, numerous out buildings and the guard towers. It is said that machine guns were armed and ready in those towers when ever Capone was on the premises. He spent a lot of time on this compound during the ten years that he owned it.

There is also a bar on the premises that was built out of the original eight car garage on the property and the port holes for the machine guns are still there today.

The auction is set for October 8^th on the steps of the Sawyer County Courthouse in Hayward. It is listed as "The Hideout ""Al Capone's Northwoods Retreat".

The owners that are giving it up to foreclosure are the original people that purchased the property from Capone's estate back in the 1950's. Since that time it was a seasonal bar and restaurant that offered guided tours of the property. It was called, "The Hideout" and was known around those parts of the region for its prime rib.

Bank officials are predicting that there will be a few interested bidders the day of the auction.

.Al Capone was nicknamed "Scarface" and was suspected in several murders during his reigning years, but he was never charged. He headed a multi million dollar bootlegging, gambling and prostitution empire.

His name is affiliated with one of the most notorious crimes in US history, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. He was considered the mastermind of those gangland killings in 1929 Chicago. The authorities could never convict him of these crimes.

Capone died in 1947 but not before finally spending 11 years in Alcatraz prison for income tax evasion, the only charges the police and FBI could ever make stick.