Tag: Germantown
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Exploring New York’s Revolutionary War Flags: A Legacy of Liberty
One of the most difficult things about writing about the Revolutionary War is trying to imagine what an American soldier would have seen and felt. Imagine yourself as an Albany County militia man at the Battle of Saratoga. You’ve just emerged from the woods and are forming up into lines for battle. Ahead of you…
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The Hessian Patriot
On April 20, 1818, an old man stood outside City Hall in Hudson having just arrived from Germantown. He was 76 years old, and he was there to apply for a pension for his service to the United States during the Revolutionary War. Like thousands of other veterans around the country he was waiting for…
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Palatines on the Map
If you have visited Clermont, you may have noticed if you plugged our address into your GPS that we are listed as being in the town of Germantown. We’re not, we’re in the town of Clermont but it’s a whole thing with the post office. Anyway, Germantown is named after the German Palatines who were…
Clermont State Historic Site 