When it was opened in 1826, it was considered a model prison because it turned a profit for the state. On their arrival on May 14, the site was "without a place to receive them or a wall to enclose them" "temporary barracks, a cook house, carpenter and blacksmith's shops" were rushed to completion. Lynds selected 100 inmates from the Auburn prison for transfer and had them transported by barge via the Erie Canal and down the Hudson River to freighters. In March 1825, the legislature appropriated $20,100 to purchase the 130-acre (0.53 km 2) site, and the project received the official stamp of approval. īy May, Lynds had decided to build a prison on Mount Pleasant, near (and thus named after) a small village in Westchester County named Sing Sing, whose name came from the Wappinger ( Native American) words sinck sinck which translates to 'stone upon stone'. Lynds spent months researching possible locations for the prison, considering Staten Island, the Bronx, and Silver Mine Farm, an area in the town of Mount Pleasant on the banks of the Hudson River. In 1824, the New York Legislature gave Elam Lynds, warden of Auburn Prison and a former United States Army captain, the task of constructing a new, more modern prison. Sing Sing was the fifth prison constructed by New York state authorities.
State Prison at Sing Sing, New York, an 1855 engraving The prison property is bisected by the Metro-North Railroad's four-track Hudson Line. There are plans to convert the original 1825 cell block into a period museum. In 1970, the prison's name was changed to the Ossining Correctional Facility, but it reverted to its original name in 1985. The name "Sing Sing" was derived from the Sintsink Native American tribe from whom the land was purchased in 1685, and was formerly the name of the village. It holds about 1,700 inmates and housed the execution chamber for the State of New York until the abolition of capital punishment in New York in 2004. It is about 30 miles (48 km) north of New York City on the east bank of the Hudson River. Sing Sing Correctional Facility, formerly Ossining Correctional Facility, is a maximum-security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, New York. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Printed on high-quality waterproof paper with UV fade-resistant inks, and shipped rolled.For other uses, see Sing Sing (disambiguation).
The map contains contour lines, roads, rivers, towns, and lakes. This quadrangle is in the following counties: Monroe. Map scale may vary for some years, but is generally around 1:24,000. Historical USGS topographic quad map of Rochester West in the state of New York.
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