Uintah Basin Record | 1932-06-17 | Page 7 | Great Penal Institute

Great Pena Pend Institute I Sing Sing the famous New York state prison is located at Ossining a town on the Hudson river about 30 miles mUes north of ot New York city The town itself itsel was originally also called Sing Sing supposedly from the Sing Sing or or- Indians In 1 who once lived in that vicin vicin- ity But in 1001 the name of or the town was ryas officially changed to OssIning Oss Oss- Ining The Inhabitants objected to the name Sing Sing because of ot ita Its popular association with the pent peni Ossining is merely anI another another an an- other form of ot Sing Sing both words being a corruption of or the tho Delaware I Indian wor word meaning literally at the small stone