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Sugar House Prison, previously the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, was a prison in the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The 180-acre (73 ha) prison housed more than 400 inmates.
The Van Cortlandt sugarhouse next to Trinity (Stone St.) was a prison until 1777. Thereafter, Livingston’s warehouse near Golden Hill (Liberty St.) became known as “the” sugar house prison.
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Nov 17, 2016 · It's hard to imagine now with the land now a pristine public park, but Sugar House Prison was Utah's first-ever penitentiary and home to one of the largest deaths in the labor movement.
Sugar House Prison. In October 1853 Brigham Young decided the site of the Utah Territory's first prison. The next year sixteen cells were constructed six miles from the city center at a spot now occupied by Sugar House Park and Highland High School.
For nearly a century, the current site of beautiful Sugar House Park was, incongruously, the grim site of the Utah State Prison. The federal government operated the penitentiary until Utah statehood. In 1896, Utah became a state and took over the prison’s operations from the federal government.
From 1855 to 1951, Sugar House Park was once the site of Utah’s first state prison. According to the Utah Division of State History, the area for the prison was selected by Brigham Young in...
Oct 30, 2023 · It is a fact: Sugar House Park was a prison and at least 14 inmates were executed. Cory Jensen, a National Register Coordinator and Architectural Historian explained the facts about the early Sugar House Prison and some of its spookiest details: the people killed and buried there.
