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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D5D_burial-ground_Kinderhook-NY.html
Burial Ground. 1816-ca 1861. Bequest by John Rogers provided this quarter acre exclusively for burials of persons of color. var plainText = document.getElementById('inscription1').innerText; document.getElementById('…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28C7_ichabod-crane_Kinderhook-NY.html
Washington Irving based the character Ichabod Crane in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow on Kinderhook school teacher Jesse Merwin.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28C2_soil-improvers_Kinderhook-NY.html
"The Whigs would hardly believe that a much larger portion of my time is taken up with devising ways & means to multiply the quantity & improve the quality of manure than in forming political plans or any such Matter." Martin Van Buren, 1843 As …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28BC_heermance-house_Kinderhook-NY.html
Early Reformed Dutch church parsonage used as a stockade during the French & Indian and Revolutionary Wars. Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28BB_lawrence-van-buren-house_Kinderhook-NY.html
Brother of Pres. Martin van Buren
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12DZ_fallen-white-mulberry-tree_Kinderhook-NY.html
About 1861, this white mulberry tree (morus alba) was planted across the carriage path from the large sycamore tree. The tree flourished for just under 150 years until an ice storm over this past winter (2012) caused the tree to collapse. The N…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12DY_marble-mounting-block_Kinderhook-NY.html
Martin Van Buren enjoyed his life at Lindenwald immensely, especially horseback riding. Located to your right is a replica of the marble mounting block President Van Buren used to get on and off his favorite Thoroughbred, Duroc. Van Buren would be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12DX_a-farmer-in-my-native-town_Kinderhook-NY.html
The view before you is much like the one Martin Van Buren enjoyed during the last 21 years of his life. Although in the course of his political career Van Buren traveled widely and kept company with heads of state and the foremost political figure…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12DC_post-road-1772_Kinderhook-NY.html
Albany to New York. Weeklymail service establishedon horseback. Passengerservice by covered wagonsand four horses in 1786.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12CX_kinderhook-creek_Kinderhook-NY.html
Prior to 1667known as "Major Abram's(Staats) Kill" and "ThirdFalls." In 1823 calledStuyvesant Falls" and after1845 "Kinderhook Creek"
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