Reviews of Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine (Museum)

115 Newgate Rd, East Granby, CT 06026, United States

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At present this firm has a rating of 4.6 over 5 and the rating was based on 16 reviews.

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This Museum is included in the category of Historical place museum.

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REVIEWS OF Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine IN Connecticut

matisse madden

We loved our tour, tour guide and the whole experience!

Ryan Winiarski

Wonderful place to take a family for a day of exploration and fun. Hope that this tourist destination is opened back up soon. Lots of events coming in the next couple of months if you have a chance you should stop by just for the views.

Sabah Shaikh

Michael W

State of Connecticut needs to get their act together and reopen this place. It had been closed for over 5 years for restoration and yet there is typically no restoration happening.

Danielle Hallam

Lots of fun for a quick afternoon outing. Knowledgeable staff and informative displays. Mine tour is perfect on a hot day.

Kevin Dwelley

Haven't been here in years Watched a half hour skit done by the Simsbury theatre guild Took a tour of the copper mine Our tour guide is a history professor Very informative and educational Skit was by donation and the tour was about $10 Well worth a few hours of time especially if you like history

Gabriella Marie

Noah Sheroff

Awesome place to visit. The site not only offers some beautiful views and photographic opportunities but has an extensive history. A tour is highly recommended.

karen luna

Nice place for spent a weekend, good for everybody ando for kids.

jim catalfamo

Connecticut and the whole northeast is a wonderful place to hike in. not only do they have great trails but the charm of these small towns throughout the northeast. just make you wonder what it must of been like 100, 200, 300 years ago. Connecticut does disappoint. the night before i put a little tower of power hiking trip together. being from a small town in NY i could wait to start my little weekend trip. we tried to hike to 7 towers, 2 museum's and a water fall in two day. we could only do 5 tower because 2 were closed. our third stop was New Gate. i didn't read up on the cooper mine before i set off to see the site. just thought it look cool from the pictures i saw on google map. as you can see this must of been a site to see in its hay day. but once you get inside and start reading the information signs you start to get wowed. then you have a pretty awesome overlooking and i said to my son with a view like that i wouldn't mine being in prison here. but after taking the tour of the mines and how they were used as a prison. you knew this wasn't a place you wanted to be. even when George Washington want to send the worst offenders someplace he sent them here. the holding areas in the mines became known as "Hell". all this started 372 years ago when the found cooper in 1705 and in 1707 is when the dug a vertical shaft and tunneling horizontally. tho the cooper mines never turn a profit it stay open until it became and prison in 1773. the first prisoner John Hinson, crime burglary, committed in 1773 and escaped in 1774. it stayed a prison until 1827. in the 1830's & 1850's reopen as a cooper mine but both time stilled fail to turn a profit. since the 1860's to the present it has been a tourist attraction. i commend Connecticut for cherishing their history. if you want to follow my trip the next stop was Trolley Museum. the whole trip made for a great weekend. in order: these were the stop we made in case you would like to try it. (Mount Tom, Haystack Mountain, New Gate Cooper Mine & Prison, Trolley Museum, Soap Stone Mountain, Talcott Mountain, Sleeping Giant State Park, Roaring Brook Falls)

Giovanna Marshall

Very interesting place. We can walk around the place and still beautiful even if couldn't go inside of the place. It will be reopen in 2018.

Kristen R

There is a small fee of $6. Small place so if you have little kids you won't be overwhelmed. Inside the guard house they have activity tables for kids to be creative. Prison isn't ideal for wheel chairs and cannot access the mine. Definitely worth checking out...I plan to go again... Passing storm cut my visit short. Mine was partially flooded so access to one room was not ideal. The temperature difference was amazing be prepared to get wet in the mine from overhead water dripping. Access to most of the actual prison is off limits due to deteriorating conditions. Technically I wouldn't consider this a museum in any way. Worth the trip.

Katharine T.

What a fascinating experience! We had a very helpful guide who led us down into the actual mine shafts (52°F!). Gazing at the gorgeous view from the prison yard really put you exactly where prisoners stood. It was such a treat to step back into history to the first prison in the US!

donald mike

Thrilling and educational

Joanna kranz

I use to go to this prison when i was in my teens back in the 50"s. A lot has changed. There was a square hole in the floor that you had to go down into and climb down a wood ladder to the lower level. It was free.