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Old New-Gate Prison is a former prison and mine site on New-Gate Road in East Granby, Connecticut. It is now operated by the state of Connecticut as the Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine Archaeological Preserve. Previously closed for restoration since 2009, it was re-opened on July 14, 2018. [3]
This is a list of current and former state prisons in Connecticut. [1] ... the colonial Old Newgate Prison (closed 1827) Webster Correctional Institution (closed 2010)
East Granby: Hartford C. 1760 unrestored home of John Viets, first prison warden of Old Newgate Prison; not open to the public. 5: Henry Whitfield State Museum: Guilford: New Haven Historic house dating from 1639. The oldest house in Connecticut and the oldest stone house in New England.
The first incorporated copper mine in America resided in what is now East Granby. The mine later became Old Newgate Prison, a Revolutionary War jail and the first state prison in the United States (1790). Farming was the mainstay of the town for much of its history.
The correctional system in Connecticut began with the Old Newgate Prison in East Granby. It was an unprofitable copper mine that opened in 1705. The state began to use the tunnels as a prison during the Revolutionary War.
The ghostly figure of a Victorian murderess is among the spectres believed to wander the halls of the Old Bailey. Nurse Amelia Dyer was aged 58 when she was hanged at the Newgate Prison on June 10 ...
Viets' Tavern is an 18th-century tavern on Newgate Road, directly across the street from the Old Newgate Prison State Historical Site in East Granby, Connecticut. The building was home for many years to the prison warden, who also operated it as a tavern. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. [1]
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