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 important 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 below (and assorted links) 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. 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. Read moreat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verplanck%27s_Point

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

--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