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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK31_necassius-de-sille-house_Paint-Rock-NY.html
This tablet is placednear the site of theNecassius De Sille HousewhereGen. Nathaniel Woodhulldied September 20, 1776
Erected by theGen. Nathaniel WoodhullChapterDaughters of theAmerican RevolutionMay 20, 1916
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK2Z_hendrick-i-lott-house_Lexington-NY.html
Built in 1800, the Hendrick I. Lott House incorporates the earlier 18th-century home of his grandfather Johannes E. Lott, a colonel in the American Army.
The Lott House is a quiet reminder that during the Revolutionary War, Kings County consist…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK2V_wyckoff-bennett-mont-house_Nacogdoches-NY.html
This Dutch-American farmhouse is a quiet reminder that the Battle of Brooklyn, one of the biggest conflicts of the Revolutionary War, took place when Kings County was still mostly farm country. The country boasted fewer than 4,000 inhabitants, one…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK2S_pieter-claesen-wyckoff-house_Bethel-NY.html
Originally the center of a Dutch West India Company bowerie, or farm, the original portion of the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House was built c. 1652 by Pieter and his wife Grietje Van Ness and is the oldest surviving structure in New York City. The ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK2J_new-utrecht-reformed-church_Richmond-NY.html
Completed in 1829, the Church incorporates in its walls the stones from the original structure, which had stood in the eastern corner of the old New Utrecht Reformed Church Cemetery, 16th Avenue and 84th Street since 1700. During the Battle of Bro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK2H_milestone-park_Richmond-NY.html
On this site stood the Van Pelt House, portions of which dated to the late 17th Century. During the Revolutionary War, local farmers like the Van Pelts saw their homes used to quarter British and Hessian officers as well as American prisoners. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK2E_gravesend-cemetery_Pickens-NY.html
On the morning of August 22, 1776, the British invasion force, approximately 20,000 troops, began landing on the shores of Gravesend Bay, supported by naval forces under the command of Admiral Lord Richard Howe. The invaders followed the King's Hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK2C_new-utrecht-cemetery_Annville-NY.html
This is the site of the original New Utrecht Reformed Church, built in 1700 on the main street of New Utrecht village.
On August 22, 1776, General Howe's troops occupied the old Church before moving to attack the Americans at Brooklyn Heights. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK2B_howards-inn-evergreen-cemetery_Annville-NY.html
The Cemetery of the Evergreens is situated at a site critical to the Battle of Brooklyn. Near the Cemetery, by the intersection of today's Broadway and Jamaica Avenue, stood Howard's Tavern, the most easterly pass of only four passes through the w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK28_rockaway-footpath_Washington-NY.html
On the eve of the Battle of Long Island in the early morning hours of August 27, 1776, General William Howe, commander of the British forces, ordered a local tavern owner, William Howard, and his son to guide several thousand British redcoats alon…