Eleanor Buck Wolf Parcel
Buck It Great Meadows Conservation Trust’s Eleanor Buck Wolf Parcel, Wethersfield May 2020 The Great Meadows Conservation Trust holds properties in Glastonbury, Rocky Hill, and Wethersfield. Sounds impressive. And I’m not here to denigrate the fine work these folks do, as it’s as important to protect land in exurbia as it is in, say, Cornwall […]
NHL: Old Newgate Prison & Copper Mine
Old Newgate Prison & Copper Mine CT National Historic Landmark Newgate Road, East Granby This place has it all… 300 year old mining history, 200 year old jail stories, human rights violations, bats, terror, slave labor, interpretive center, traitors, escaped monkeys, nice views of the Farmington River Valley… But you can – and should – […]
First Copper Mine & Federal/State Prison in US
Old Newgate Prison & Copper Mine East Granby If you’re reading this sentence and are at all interested in Old Newgate Prison and Copper Mine, you should just go to the page I wrote about our visit to it. Because what you’re reading now is a very truncated version of that. First Copper Mine in […]
Old Newgate Prison and Copper Mine
From Copper to Coppers East Granby (Google Maps location) September 1, 2018 I didn’t think this page would ever happen. Soon after I began writing this website in 2006, Newgate was “closed temporarily for repairs.” I thought, “good, maybe I’ll sort out if it’s ‘Newgate,” “New-Gate,” or “New Gate” by the time it reopens. Nearly […]