Screenshot from Ken Burns American Revolution. The caption reads “Several dozen were hauled away to Simsbury, Connecticut.”
The narrator continues: “and imprisoned in an abandoned copper mine seventy feet below the Earth that the Patriots called the ‘catacomb of loyalty.’”
Finally found time to watch @kenlburns.bsky.social’s #AmericanRevolution.
Nobody told me that the town where I grew up was referenced in Episode 3!
( #Simsbury was the site of an abandoned mine that served as a prison for captured Loyalists: revolutionarywarjournal.com/simsbury-min...) #CTHistory