IT'S CALLED PRESIDENT'S DAY BUT IT'S ACTUALLY WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, HIS RICH HISTORY IN THE HUDSON VALLEY...AND CROTON...AND SOME MORE LOCAL PRESIDENTIAL STUFF!

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At this blog we celebrate all the holidays---and our history as well.....And so......in honor of Presidents Day---well that is what it is called these days but it was traditionally known as Washington's Birthday---here's  an interesting article from the National Review: Celebrating Washington's Birthday 

Then click on the images 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.

And 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....such a wonderful history and it is all right here.

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/ 

And of course, you may also enjoy:

--THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, THE FAIRPORT HERALD, 1888, THE CROTON CONNECTION & MORE HERE.

--FROM 2020 AND LEG. TESTA; THE LINCOLN REMEMBRANCE ALBUM, PEEKSKILL https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2020/02/photo-album-lincoln-remembrance-day.html

For more about The Lincoln Depot Museum, visit  http://lincolndepotmuseum.org/

--FROM CROTON'S LATE ROBERT SCOTT: Robert Scott’s “The Two Journeys of Abraham Lincoln” at http://notorc.blogspot.com/2009/02/two-journeys-of-abraham-lincoln.html

--A blast from Presidents Past, Truman visits Croton 1948  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2017/12/1948-truman-visits-croton.html