Van Cortlandt's Sugar House Small 320×248 Medium 640×495 Large 1024×793 Download TIFF Original 2400×1858 | (7.2 MB) Description Van Cortlandt's Sugar House was a famous (or infamous) prison of the Revolution. It stood on the northwest corner of Trinity church-yard. Keywords American Revolutionary War, prison, sugar house Galleries 1763-1788 American Revolution Places Source: Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 7) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)
