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as 4 feet high. The Connecticut state website provides potential visitors with a description of the conditions and terrain to be expected (such as not being accessible to wheelchairs, strollers, or walkers and involves multiple sets of metal stairs leading down to the mine). A virtual tour of the underground mine is also available.
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Visitors are able to explore the prison courtyard, or they can take a guided tour provided by museum staff. A guided tour of the underground copper mine is offered, taking visitors through the mine. The underground tour involves traversing as low as 75 feet below ground, and includes tunnels as short
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After eighteen days' imprisonment, a snow storm struck. Around midnight, Viets went to check on his captive. Descending the ladder, he found Hinson’s bunk was empty and his few possessions were missing. It was later discovered that a female accomplice had braved the deep snow with a hundred-foot rope
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The colony purchased the remaining years of Captain James Holmes’s mining lease and set about constructing the necessary infrastructure needed to convert the mine into a satisfactory prison. A small blockhouse was constructed over the main shaft with ladder – the only entrance and exit from the mine.
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At first, the number of Loyalist prisoners remained low with only five or six being incarcerated in the prison, often for numerous offenses. However, this changed and upwards of thirty to forty loyalists at a time begun to be imprisoned purely for their sympathies to the Crown, often facing charges
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In response, the General Assembly recommended a number of changes. Firstly, at least two guards were to watch the prison at night. The ventilating shaft in which Hinson had made his escape from was also to be covered with “stones about 15 to 18 inches square and of suitable length… secured with a
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and cutlasses, another escape attempt occurred on May 18, 1781. While two officers were raising the shaft’s gate, it was violently heaved upward and the men, armed with rocks and scraps of metal, scrambled up the ladder into the blockhouse. The guards were overpowered and disarmed in the ensuing
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The mine was purchased by private owners who, for a price, provided candles and guided tours of the old prison for curious visitors. The site has been considered a tourist attraction since the 1860s. Prison tours were still carried out and to attract more visitors, a variety of attractions were
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for the first offense – not to exceed ten years, and the second offense was life. The keeper of the prison was authorized to punish the convicts for offenses by “moderate whipping, not exceeding ten stripes, and by putting shackles and fetters upon them.” It was intended that prisoners would be
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In spring 1776, a number of prisoners attempted to escape the prison by burning a wooden door which sat over the exit shaft. Hay had been smuggled for weeks where it was deemed to be sufficiently combustible. Upon lighting the hay, however, the damp conditions underground caused only a smolder
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The treatment of loyalists in the prison was no different from that of other convicted criminals. With up to a hundred inmates being held at one time, air circulation in such a confined space was limited. There was no natural light, no opportunities for inmates to wash, and communal toilet
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Excavations were made on the summit of the hill and two perpendicular shafts, one nearly eighty feet deep and the other thirty-five, were dug through the rock to raise the ore. Caverns were carved out at the bottom of the shafts that extended several hundred feet in various directions.
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Mining was abandoned and the need for punitive work expanded their hard labor to include making hand wrought nails. Prisoners were bound in iron chains and forced into the compulsory construction of nails from 4am to 4pm. Lashes were dished out as punishment for disobedience.
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cell. Situated at an area near the end of one of the passageways, the cell was consisted of bare rock and was twenty feet square with no light. In the middle of the cell was a rock with an iron bolt affixed to it, allowing for a prisoner's legs to be chained to it.
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In 1790, the site became a state prison. Most of the above-ground facilities present today were built between then and 1802. These include the main prison wall, a new workshop for the convicts, and five brick-and-masonry buildings, all of which now stand in ruins.
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In order to assist the convict workers, a number of expert miners were hired to work alongside them. However this had an adverse effect, with the hired miners becoming friendly with the convicts and willingly entering into their escape plans with them.
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Though the improvements were many, the jail remained a miserable facility. Men were chained and forced to march the treadmill, an overseer standing by with his whip ready. In 1824, a four-story building was erected containing offices, a
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In May 1773, Colonel William Pitkin, Eratus Wolcott, and Captain Jonathan Humphrey visited the mines. They determined that by carving a 15 by 12 foot lodging room near the first shaft they had the makings of a formidable prison.
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Others would renew the lease, however profits continued to remain small. Cargoes shipped to Europe had slim returns. Over the years, two ships were lost, one taken by the French as a prize during war and the other sunk in the
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A history of Newgate of Connecticut, at Simsbury, now East Granby: its insurrections and massacres, the imprisonment of the Tories in the Revolution, and the working of its mines. Also, some account of the state prison, at
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sought a central prison to house its convicts. The unsuccessful mine, with its labyrinth of caves and shafts, was explored as an option as an escape-proof institution in which isolated prisoners could be kept from society.
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two years later. They also constructed a sloping tunnel to provide visitors access via stairs to the mines. The museum and grounds was closed in 2009 for structural repairs, re-opening to the public on July 14, 2018.
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brawl. The escapees then captured the night duty guards as well as those sleeping. All guards, regardless of their condition, were then transported down into the prison, before the prisoners fled from the scene.
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Some company owners defied the ban on smelting in America and constructed furnaces in order to pound, smelt, and refine the ore. This was done is secrecy, but it too proved a financial burden and was abandoned.
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was denounced as a traitor and marched by a crowd several miles in the direction of the prison. The fear of imprisonment at Simsbury was enough for him to sign the crowd’s oath and beg for forgiveness.
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Today, Old New-Gate Prison is open for visitors typically between the months of May and October with events usually being held the months of September and October. The site features a large wooden
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In order to combat the percolation of water into the mine drains were dug in order to draw it away. However this proved unsuccessful and pumps were required to be kept running throughout the day.
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Ongoing historical research project from Trinity College students Camille Valentincic and Zeinab Bakayoko (2021), Zoë Gill and Madison Wilson (2022), and Ava Caudle and Elizabeth Ochoa (2023)
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The vein yielded three to five percent of pure copper, however it was not enough to offset the cost of running the mine. Speculators pulled out and eventually Belcher dissolved the venture.
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In December 1773 the prison received its first convict, John Hinson sentenced to 10 years for burglary. Hinson was a career criminal who had spent time in half a dozen county jails.
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With the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 bringing a conclusion to the conflict, the new United States government lost interest in using the mine as a federal prison.
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The mine complex was acquired by the state historic commission in 1968. In the 1970s the state repurposed the old guardhouse for use as a visitors' center and interpretive
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The prison had only one point of entry and exit, a forty-foot ladder down into the mine from the guardhouse. Prisoners would be provided with musty straw to sleep on.
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Of all the inmates held in captivity in the prison during the war, it is estimated that approximately half absconded and escaped in some capacity.
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Several more buildings were constructed: a large kitchen, several small factories, a hospital, quarters for female convicts, and a thirty-foot
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Attempts were made to reactivate the mines in the 1830s and 1850s, but these ventures failed and mining at the site was again abandoned.
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On November 6, 1782, the wooden buildings of the prison were destroyed by fire, allowing for another escape of inmates to take place.
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in America. Because they could not construct a furnace to extract the copper from the ore the entire mass had to be shipped to
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strong iron gate, about six feet below the surface.” Further to this, it was decided that the prisoners were to be used as
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In 1709, three clergymen, John Woodbridge, Timothy Woodbridge, Jr., and Dudley Woodbridge, formed a company to extract the
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Skilled miners were brought in to the mine in order to dig and extract the ore. The ore was then hauled fourteen miles to
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coiled around her shoulder. She lowered the rope down the eighty-foot well shaft, allowing Hinson to climb out.
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On December 2, 1773, representatives for the Colonial Legislature approached Captain John Viets, owner of a
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Archaeological Preserve. Previously closed for restoration since 2009, it was re-opened on July 14, 2018.
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The psychological fear of the prison was itself used in order to torment Loyalists. Colonel
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Alongside miners brought specifically to the mine, local workers and farmers from nearby
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The ore was developed amateurishly, broken out by hand, upgraded, and shipped to British
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The site is now owned and administered by the State of Connecticut as a museum. Nearby
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In 1827, the prison was closed and the remaining prisoners were transferred to the new
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The lodging room was enlarged along with accommodations for the expected prisoners.
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that was operated by twenty two inmates climbing paddle blades to grind grain.
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Despite the increase of prison security, now numbering 27 soldiers armed with
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Interest in the mine did not disappear with the Woodbridge Company. In 1714,
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Above currently open facilities are male-only unless noted by ♀(female-only)
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The General Assembly passed an act prescribing the terms of imprisonment:
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resulting in large shipping costs. Within four years, the venture failed.
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in which its history and use during the American Revolution is explored.
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facilities. Among inmates, the prison was often referred to as “Hell”.
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instead. The smoke was enough to result in the death of one prisoner.
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and machining. All were incorporated into the prison workforce.
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From nail making, the prison industry branched out to include
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For particularly unruly inmates, the prison possessed a
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Old Newgate Prison
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark

Old New-Gate Prison is located in Connecticut
Old New-Gate Prison is located in the United States
41°57′43″N 72°44′44″W / 41.96194°N 72.74556°W / 41.96194; -72.74556
70000839
East Granby, Connecticut
Connecticut
copper mine
prisoners of war
American Revolutionary War
National Historic Landmark
copper
Talcott Mountain
Simsbury
ore
consignees
smelted
England
Jonathan Belcher
Hartford
New York City
Windsor
African
Native American slaves
English Channel
Connecticut General Assembly
burglary

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