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ANew Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site
- Vails Gate
NY - +1 845 561 1765
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- Location: New Windsor, New York (1.4 miles from Cornwall)
- Overview The New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site is located along NY 300 a mile north of Vails Gate in Orange County's Town of New Windsor. It is a reconstruction of the final encampment of the Continental Army. Between June 1782 and October 1783 7,000 troops were boarded here in 600 log huts, over... more on En.wikipedia.org
- Overview In October 1782, General George Washington moved his army to New Windsor to establish living quarters for his soldiers. Six hundred log huts became the cantonment with high-ranking officers residing in private homes. It was at the New Windsor Cantonment that the cease fire orders were issued by W... more on Wildernet.com
New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site
Vails GateNY
BEdmonston House
- Vails Gate
NY 12584 - +1 845 561 5073
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- Location: New Windsor, New York (1.2 miles from Cornwall)
- Overview Restored stone house with blacksith shop and slave quarters. more on Yahoo! Travel
- Overview The Edmonston House is located on NY 94 in the Vails Gate section of the Town of New Windsor in Orange County, New York. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979. Built in 1755 by William Edmonston, it was used as a headquarters during the last years of the Revolu... more on En.wikipedia.org
Edmonston House
Vails GateNY 12584
CChadwick Lake
- Route 300
Newburgh, NY 12550 - +1 845 564 7815
- Overview Fishing and ice skating. more on Yahoo! Travel
- Overview Chadwick Lake is a reservoir supplying water to the Town of Newburgh, in Orange County, New York, United States. It was created by damming Quassaick Creek in 1926.[1] It is located to the northeast of the junction of NY 32 and 300 in the Cronomer Valley section of the town. ... more on En.wikipedia.org
Chadwick Lake
Route 300Newburgh, NY 12550
DNew Windsor Cantonment
- Temple Hill Road
Vails Gate, NY 12584 - +1 845 561 1765
- Overview The final winter encampment of 8,000 soldiers and campfollowers of the Continental Army (1782-83), now a living history museum with demonstrations of musket and cannon drill, blacksmithing, carpentry and 18th century medicine. ... more on MuseumStuff.com
- Overview New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site was the final encampment of the Northern Continental Army, 1782-1783, and is also home to the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, gathering the stories of American's combat-wounded military personnel. Knox's Headquarters is the 1754 country estate of th... more on TripAdvisor
New Windsor Cantonment
Temple Hill RoadVails Gate, NY 12584
EWashington's Headquarters State Historic Site
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- Newburgh
NY 12551 - 914 / 562-1195
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- Location: Newburgh, New York (5.0 miles from Cornwall)
- Overview General George Washington established his military headquarters on the banks of the Hudson in Newburgh in 1782 and 1783, during the final years of the Revolutionary War. He, his wife, Martha, and his principal aides and their servants occupied a 1750 farmhouse donated to the army by a prosperous ... more on Frommers
- Overview From April 1782 to August 1783, General George Washington made his military headquarters and home in this Dutch fieldstone house, where he attended to the final years of Revolutionary War activity. Guided tours show how Washington, his wife, Martha, and his aides-de-camp lived and worked here as ... more on Fodor's
Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site
NewburghNY 12551
FMount Gulian
- 145 Sterling Street
Beacon, NY 12508 - +1 845 831 8172
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- Location: Beacon, New York (6.9 miles from Cornwall)
- Overview Mount Gulian is a reconstructed 18th century Dutch manor house on the Hudson River in the town of Fishkill, New York, United States of America. The original house served as the headquarters of Major General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben during the American Revolutionary War and was the place wher... more on En.wikipedia.org
Mount Gulian
145 Sterling StreetBeacon, NY 12508
