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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK9I_new-utrecht-liberty-pole_Greenville-NY.html
This Liberty Pole marks the spot over which the American flag first waved in the town of New Utrecht. The original pole was erected by our forefathers at the Evacuation of the British, November 1783, amid the firing of cannons and demonstration of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5Z_hendrick-i-lott-house_Houston-NY.html
The Hendrick I. Lott House is one of fourteen remaining Dutch Colonial farmhouses in Kings County. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is designated as a New York City Landmark. The house remains structurally sound and vir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5X_kosciuszko_West-Point-NY.html
The pedestal and shaft of this monument were erected by the Corps of Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy in 1828 to the memory ofthe Polish American GeneralThaddeus KosciuszkoThe statue of this Revolutionary hero was presented by the Polish clergy…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5H_wyckoff-bennett-homestead_Barboursville-NY.html
The best preserved, and considered by many the most beautiful example of Dutch Colonial architecture in Brooklyn, this dwelling is believed to have been built by Henry and Abraham Wyckoff, descendants of Pieter Wyckoff who came to this country in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5E_new-utrecht-reformed-church_Goshen-NY.html
The walls of this building, constructed in early Gothic revival style in 1828, contain stones taken from a predecessor church built in 1700 as the first house of worship for the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of New Utrecht, organized in 1677. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5D_dutch-reformed-church-of-flatlands_Goshen-NY.html
Constructed in 1848 in late Federal style, this edifice occupies the site of the original octagonal shingled church built in 1663 and rebuilt in 1794. The congregation was formed in 1654 by the Rev. Johannes Megapolensis, pastor of the Collegiate …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5C_the-battle-of-brooklyn_Goshen-NY.html
On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence proclaimed to the world that thirteen British colonies had joined together to create a new nation: the United States of America. Here in Brooklyn, only two months later, the survifal of that new nat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5B_the-battle-of-brooklyn_Goshen-NY.html
On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence proclaimed to the world that thirteen British colonies had joined together to create a new nation: the United States of America. Here in Brooklyn, only two months later, the survival of that new nat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK53_general-george-s-patton-jr_West-Point-NY.html
Class of 1909byJames Earle Fraser1950
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK4A_underground-railroad-station_New-York-NY.html
On September 3, 1838, human-rights activist Frederick Douglass escaped slavery in Maryland by disguising himself as a sailor and traveling North by carriage, train and boat. A few days later he arrived at 36 Lispenard Street, then a small brick bu…