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Events
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Patriots'
Weekend 2003
Join
us for our second annual Patriots’ Weekend celebrations with
the M&T Bank Charitable Foundation & Charlotte Cunneen-Hackett
Lecture on Hudson River Valley History at Marist College on Friday
September 19th at Marist College, then Saturday and Sunday in the
Village of Pawling, NY for Demonstrations by the Brigade of the
American Revolution, period music, plays, presentations, and a press
conference by General Washington himself.
Twin
Forts Day at Fort Montogomery State Historic Site and For Clinton
October
4, 2003: Twin Forts Day at Fort Montgomery State Historic Site and
Fort Clinton (Trailside Museum). Join the 5th New York Regiment
to observe the 226th Anniversary of the battles of Fort Montgomery
and Clinton. Re-enactors will interpret camp life, conduct ceremonies
and drill, and defend the surviving redoubts. You will be able to
move from fort to fort using the suspension bridge over Popolopen
Creek. Acoustiguides will be available for self-guided tours of
Fort Montgomery. The highlight of the day will be the firing of
Fort Montgomery's battery of artillery at the Grand Battery overlooking
the Hudson. For more information call, 845-786-2701, and visit www.hudsonrivervalley.net
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This Month's Featured Website
The
Library of Congress
Many of the George Washington letters on our site have been culled from
the collection at the Library of Congress; their American Memory site
is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history
and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million
digital items from more than 100 historical collections. The site is easy
to navigate around with things such as today in history, a featured collection,
and a collection search. Some collections found at the Library of Congress
website include George Washington’s Letters, Frederick Douglass
Papers, and Revolution Era Maps.
Pawling
isn’t the only Town that was once considered a part of Fredericksburgh
– while General Washington was Headquartered in the Kane House,
his troops were encamped from Danbury to Fishkill – this month’s
featured Historic Site is actually a museum in the Town of Southeast –
and our featured historic town is Patterson – both of which were
also considered to be a part of Fredericksburg at various times in our
Valley’s history.
This Months’s Featured Historic Site
“Established
in 1963, the Southeast Museum offers exhibits on the history of
the Town of Southeast, including the early American Circus, the
Harlem Line Railroad, the Tilly Foster Mine, the Borden Milk Condensery,
and the Croton Reservoir System. In addition, the museum presents
various changing exhibits, drawing on its extensive collection of
antique farm and household implements, quilts, clothing and assorted
Americana reflecting 19th century material culture. The museum is
located on Main Street, Brewster in one of Putnam County's largest
landmarked buildings, the 1896 Old Town Hall, which is listed in
the National Register of Historic Places.” |
This Month’s Featured Historic Town
of the Hudson River Valley
Patterson,NY
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“People
have lived for a long time in this beautiful valley where a natural
trail, running from New England to the Hudson, makes a gentle bend
here along the edge of the Great Swamp. Traces can be found nearby
of three thousand year old campsites. More recently, but still before
the arrival of the Europeans, Indian tribes from Connecticut and
from the Hudson Valley shared this area as a summer hunting ground.
This trail became one of the main roads used by settlers from New
England who began to arrive in the early 1730's and it appears on
a map made for General Washington in 1778."
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