Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine
A colonial copper mine later used as Connecticut's first state prison, with underground workings and surviving prison ruins.
DocumentedTicketedFee or pass1 to 2 hoursChecked July 2026
New England · 1 field file
Current field files in Connecticut.
The Atlas is curated, not exhaustive. These are the sourced files in Connecticut in Volume 01, each with its own access status, evidence label, and check date. Nothing here is statewide travel advice.
- Category coverage
- Public-access summary
- Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine: State museum.
- Last content review
- Catalog reviewed July 2026. Each file carries its own source-check date. Conditions change; check the primary source before traveling.
Field files
Across the line
Files in other states within 200 straight-line miles of a Connecticut file. Distances are not drive distances.
Madame Sherri Forest
A protected forest containing the stone remnants of Madame Antoinette Sherri's elaborate former summer house.
DocumentedPublicFree1 to 3 hoursChecked July 2026Bennington Battle Monument
A 306-foot stone monument commemorating the pivotal 1777 Battle of Bennington.
DocumentedSeasonalFee or pass1 to 2 hoursChecked July 2026Fort Adams
A massive coastal fortification guarding Newport Harbor, with ramparts, casemates, and underground listening tunnels.
DocumentedPublicTicketed2 to 4 hoursChecked July 2026Salem Witch Museum
A long-running museum interpreting the 1692 witch trials and the machinery of fear and accusation around them.
DocumentedTicketedTicketed1 to 2 hoursChecked July 2026The Green-Wood Cemetery
A vast nineteenth-century cemetery of hills, monuments, mausoleums, trees, and more than half a million permanent residents.
DocumentedPublicVaries2 to 5 hoursChecked July 2026Jersey Devil
New Jersey folklore places a hooved, winged creature in the Pine Barrens and connects it to several competing Mother Leeds origin stories.
Folklore + reportsPublicVaries2 to 5 hoursChecked July 2026
Official sources used in Connecticut
Also in New England: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont.