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The Livingston sugar house (left) on Liberty Street in Manhattan once detained 400 to 500 American prisoners of the Revolutionary War. Sugar houses in New York City were used as prisons by occupying British forces during the American Revolutionary War.
Sugar House Prison, previously the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, was a prison in the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The 180-acre (73 ha) prison housed more than 400 inmates.
The Van Cortlandt sugarhouse next to Trinity (Stone St.) was a prison until 1777. Thereafter, Livingston’s warehouse near Golden Hill (Liberty St.) became known as “the” sugar house prison.
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Oct 30, 2023 · It is a fact: Sugar House Park was a prison and at least 14 inmates were executed. Cory Jensen, a National Register Coordinator and Architectural Historian explained the facts about the early Sugar House Prison and some of its spookiest details: the people killed and buried there.
Because many “dissenting Protestants” supported the rebellion, the government turned virtually every non-Anglican church into a prison. And it did the same with the sugar warehouses of rich families accused of rebel sympathies, like the Van Cortlandts and the Livingstons.
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May 31, 2023 · As the Revolutionary War unfolded, the Sugar House was converted into a makeshift prison. The British, who controlled New York, found it a convenient place to confine American patriots. From 1776 to 1783, hundreds of men and women were held captive within its thick, cold walls.
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Sugar House Prison. In October 1853 Brigham Young decided the site of the Utah Territory's first prison. The next year sixteen cells were constructed six miles from the city center at a spot now occupied by Sugar House Park and Highland High School.
