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This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, New York. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [ 1 ]
The Cheesecock, or Cheesecock Patent, was a vast tract of land that seven English colonists bought from Iroquois Indians in 1702. [1] It included the southern part of what became Orange County, New York State, that now covers the towns of Monroe and Tuxedo and extends over part of Rockland County, which was separated from Orange County in 1798.
The Senate House State Historic Site is located on Fair Street in Kingston, New York, United States. During the Revolutionary War, New York's First Constitutional Convention met in Kingston, where it adopted the first New York State Constitution on April 20th, 1777. Upon being elected, the first New York State Senate met in the home of local ...
Kingston is the only city in, and the county seat of, Ulster County, New York, United States. It is 91 miles (146 km) north of New York City and 59 miles (95 km) south of Albany . The city's metropolitan area is grouped with the New York metropolitan area around Manhattan by the United States Census Bureau . [ 2 ]
The Kingston Stockade District is an eight-block area in the western section of Kingston, New York, United States, commonly referred to as Uptown Kingston. It is the original site of the mid-17th century Dutch settlement of Wiltwyck, which was later renamed Kingston when it passed to English control .
The Senate House, in Kingston, is where the U.S. state of New York was founded in 1777. [1] The predecessors of Hudson Valley towns predate the state. The towns and cities of the Hudson Valley were created by the U.S. state of New York as municipalities, in order to perform the services of local government. [2]
Orange County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York.As of the 2020 census, the population was 401,310.The county seat is Goshen. [2] This county was first created in 1683 and reorganized with its present boundaries in 1798. [3]
The Tobias Van Steenburgh House is located on Wall Street in Kingston, New York, United States. It is a stone house built around the beginning of the 18th century. It was one of the few buildings in Kingston not burned by the British in 1777. A large plaque on the front of the house notes this.