Washington Spy Ring National Historic Trail Designation Act

Congress finds the following:

(1) The Culper Spy Ring was a group of American Revolutionaries who gathered intelligence on British troop movements and fortifications in Manhattan, Long Island, and elsewhere for General George Washington.

(2) The Culper Spy Ring is credited with uncovering Benedict Arnold’s conspiracy to surrender West Point to the British and saving the Franco-American alliance by uncovering plans to ambush the French army in Rhode Island.

(3) Key locations used by the Culper Spy Ring include—

(A) Raynham Hall in Oyster Bay, New York, the home of intelligence operative Robert Townsend;

(B) the Arsenal (also known as the Job Sammis House) in Huntington, New York, which was used to store gunpowder during the British occupation of Long Island and the town of Huntington;

(C) the Brewster House, a tavern in Setauket, New York, owned by the Brewster family and used to spy on British officers and transfer information to General Washington across the Long Island Sound; and

(D) generally, the byways and highways connecting these sites.