Who are some of the more famous Prisoners executed at Sing Sing Prison?
I happen to be the former ‘Village Historian’ of Ossining, NY, where Sing Sing is located. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the espionage spies, in June 1953. There was a total of 614 inmates executed at Sing Sing between 1891 – 1963. Early 17th century Dutch maps of the Hudson River Valley show an Indian village, whose inhabitants were part of the Mohegan Tribe, named “Sint Sinck.” That phrase, when translated, means “stone upon stone” and refers to the extensive beds of limestone found in the southern part of the village. In 1685, the Sint Sincks sold their land to Frederick Philipse who incorporated it into his land holdings known as the Manor of Philipsburg. The Manor comprised of about 165,000 acres and extended from Spuyten Duyvil Creek at the tip of Manhattan on the south to the Croton River just north of the Village of Ossining. The land was leased to tenant farmers of Dutch, French, and English origin. The area remained with the family until the end of the Revolution when the last
