Source: Atlas Obscura
A plaque posted on Pier 1 Imports at 3rd Avenue and 66th Street in Manhattan claims that Nathan Hale, a young American spy and soldier in the Revolutionary War, was strung up on a gallows within 100 yards of this site on September 22, 1776, and hanged by the British.
This information comes from a British Officer’s diary, which stated that the hanging occurred at “the Royal Artillery Park near…
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