EVERYTHING CROTON CELEBRATES PRESIDENTS DAY, PART ONE: THE HUDSON VALLEY CONNECTION AND MUCH MORE

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At this blog we celebrate all the holidays---and our history as well.....And so......in honor of President's Day---Part 1---an excerpt from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Appleton's Journal, June 1873, regarding our own Van Cortlandt Manor.  For more about Van Cortlandt Manor, click here.

Did you know that George Washington, Lafayette, Col. Brandt, Dr. Franklin, early Methodist preachers and numerous other notables of the day were frequent visitors there....

Click on the photos and links------------stay tuned for Part 2.

You may also enjoy these additional local links about Washington:

--COURTESY OF CROTON HISTORY & MYSTERIES:  Here is a post card showing the “Croton River, from Quaker Bridge, where Washington’s Army Crossed.”  CLICK HERE.

--WASHINGTON AND NEARBY VERPLANCK: Verplanck's Point is best known for its role in the American Revolutionary War, several times serving as an encampment for Washington's Continental Army during its crossings of the Hudson River. Its flat alluvial plane served as a natural staging area for ferrying men and materiel from Kings Ferry, lying between the Point and the neighboring hamlet of Montrose and Stony Point on the west bank of the river.  Read and see more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verplanck%27s_Point

--NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Welcome to Verplanck’s Point-- A Close-up Look at Our Revolutionary War Diorama. SEE AND READ MUCH MORE AT https://historydetectives.nyhistory.org/2019/08/welcome-to-verplancks-point-a-close-up-look-at-our-revolutionary-war-diorama/

UPDATED--part two is at  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/02/everything-croton-celebrates-presidents_15.html