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On August 10, 1960, an honorably discharged 66-year-old World War I veteran, George Vincent Nash, was removed from resting alongside his Caucasian wife at the White Chapel Cemetery. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The action took place immediately following the graveside service because Nash was a full-blooded Ho-Chunk (also known as Winnebago) or Native American ...
Map of the State of New York ( ) Author: ... Simeon DeWitt. Description: American cartographer and surveyor: Date of birth/death: 25 December 1756 : 3 December 1834 :
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Greene 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 ]
DeWitt was part of the Central New York Military Tract.The first settlers arrived around 1789. The original Erie Canal progressed through the town in 1825. DeWitt was formed in 1835 from the Town of Manlius and was named in honor of Moses DeWitt, [5] a major in the militia, a county judge, and one of the first settlers of the county.
In 1802, De Witt produced a detailed map of the state of New York, which was then engraved by Gideon Fairman. [15] The map is said by historian Gerard Koeppel to have been "meticulously drawn" and to have "set a standard for American cartography; it is still considered 'the most important map ever made of the Empire State.'" [16] The map shows New York state to be primarily uninhabited, at ...
Like many early Tallahassee street names, the name was applied at the time of the city's founding in 1824 to honor a national leader, either George Clinton, a U.S. vice-president under two ...
DeWitt Park is owned by the Presbyterian Church on North Cayuga Street. [5] The church congregation purchased the land from Simeon DeWitt on August 1, 1815, for the sum of $499.65. [ 5 ] The church specifically set the land aside for public enjoyment, rather than as a graveyard, which would have been more typical of the day. [ 5 ]
National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York City; New Montefiore Cemetery, West Babylon, New York; New Paltz Rural Cemetery, New Paltz; New York Marble Cemetery, East Village, Manhattan, the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City