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(71st) Seventy-first New York Volunteers / Park Avenue Armory (1904–1906) 7 – Park Avenue (between East 33rd and East 34th streets), Midtown South (42nd) Forty-Second Division / West 14th Street Armory (1971) 5 – 125 West 14th Street (between Sixth Avenue and Seventh Avenue), Chelsea
It was built in the 1910s, from a design by the firm of then-state architect Lewis Pilcher to house the New York National Guard's Eighth Coast Defense Command (258th Field Artillery Regiment after November 1921), a regiment-sized unit which relocated from Manhattan in 1917. It is possibly the largest armory in the world. [3]
The New York Army National Guard was formally created in 1906. The Militia Act of 1903 organized the various state militias into the present National Guard system. The New York Army National Guard dispatched elements of the 27th Infantry Division and the 42nd Infantry Division to both world wars.
The Cambridge Historic District is located in an irregular pattern along streets in the village of Cambridge in Washington County, New York.It is a 105-acre (42 ha) area reflecting the extent of the village when it was first incorporated in the 1860s and its subsequent development in the years the Rice Seed Company, largest in the world at the time, was located here.
History of the Seventh Regiment of New York, 1806-1889. New York, NY: Published by the Seventh Regiment, 1890. Elting, John R. Amateurs to Arms!: A Military History of the War of 1812. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. ISBN 0-945575-08-4. Fanning, Paul The Seventh New York and the Naming of the National Guard.
The New York National Guard played an active role in Army aviation from the early 1900s through the end of World War II. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Combat Aviation Brigade, 42d Infantry Division traces its history from 1947 when the post- World War II reorganization of the United States military created the United States Air Force as an entity separate ...
First militia muster in what is now Continental United States, 16 September 1565, St. Augustine, Florida. A militia was mustered in Spanish Florida in the 1500s, [1] while on 13 December 1636 the Massachusetts Bay Colony's General Court passed an act calling for the creation of three militia regiments from the existing separate militia companies in towns around Boston. [2]
The 12th New York Volunteer Infantry was organized at Elmira, New York and mustered in May 8, 1861 for two years' state service under the command of Colonel Ezra L. Walrath. On May 13, 1861 the regiment was re-mustered for three months' federal service and again re-mustered on August 2, 1861 for two years' state service.