Prison Martyr’s Monument Honoring Jersey Prison Ship Dead
During the Revolution many sailors died aboard prison ships in New York Harbor. Remains were exhumed in 1808 and buried in Fort Greene Park after a 1878 discovery. A Monument Association formed in 1899-1901 to fund and plan a McKim Mead & White white granite shaft memorial.
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New York Harbor
Manhattan
Jersey
Wallabout Basin
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Benjamin Romaine
Jackson Farm
Fort Greene Park
Navy Yard
McKim, Mead & White
Fifth Avenue
New York
Statue of Nathan Hale Monument at Fort Greene
A Grecian Doric monument rises eighteen feet wide at the base and about one hundred sixty four feet high, surmounted by a bronze urn. A central stairway leads to a small door, and a tomb eight by eighteen feet holds boxes of prison ship martyrs. Erected on Fort Greene upper plateau near the park entrance, reachable by three flights of stairs. The ships used for confinement are described as old and useless.
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Fort Greene
Brooklyn
First banner for United States raised at Fort Stanwix
A drum boy from Fort Stanwix Icily recalls August 3 1777 the first day of siege when Colonel Gansevoort ordered a banner sewn from scraps red white and blue to fly over the bastions. The improvised Stars and Stripes was raised by sunset amid fighting as ships including the Jersey and Good Hope watched.
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New York State
Toni Feadick
Tom
Philadelphia Gazette
United States
Congress
Fourth of July Donts and Patrick Henry's Liberty Verse
An uneven excerpt reflects Fourth of July cautionary verses about firecrackers and safe behavior, then shifts to Patrick Henry's famous "give me liberty or give me death" speech. It notes the oldst church in Richmond Virginia, a patriotic shrine visited yearly by pilgrims.
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Continental Congress
Patrick Henry
Sttle
Tor
Richmond
Virginia
Why Yorktown Became the Focal Custom House
The piece explains Yorktown’s selection as a military target due to its status as a great seaport and an early brick custom-house built for colonial trade. It notes Jamestown’s earlier attempts to centralize commerce, the 1623 cargo order, and the first customs duties, while stating Yorktown’s brick building remains substantial after two centuries.
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Lord Cornwallis
Norfolk
Yorktown
England
Atlantic
Jamestown Island
America
Virginia
Jamestown
Tyler
Cradle of the Republic
Yorktown Custom-House
Albert Spalding the Violin Virtuoso of Renown
A portrait of Albert Spalding, famed American violinist, son of Al G Spalding. Born in Chicago in 1885, he trained in Florence and Paris, won Bologna Conservatoire prize at fourteen, praised for his warm tone, technical mastery, and refined musical taste. Geraldine Farrar also noted as gifted, child of baseball figures.
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Geraldine Farrar
Albert Spalding
Sid. C. Farrar
Philadelphia Nationals
al. G. Spalding
Spalding
Wilhelmj
Chicago
Chiti
Florence
J. Bultrago
Bolonia Conservatoire
Paris
Lefort
Making a Paper Aeroplane and a New York Estate Sale
A Popular Mechanics drawing explains folding a paper aeroplane with a paper clip and balance wires for stability. Also reported is a case in New York where the smallest estate ever settled ended with a $0.25 payout to heirs after a surrogate's sale of the deceased's effects. A Pittsburgh Dispatch note states U.S. fishing output this year totals about $64 million.
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J. H. Crawford
New York
William Porteland
Portland
Waa
Pitsburg Dispatch
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AGUS
Pas
Nathan Hale
Good Hope
Scorpion
Whiteley
Falmouth
Prince of Wales
Stromboli
Hunter
Kittle
Providence
Bristol
Long Island Historic Society
J. J. Munro
Easoned
Warwick James Price
Ezra James
Ezra
H. A. Ogden
St. Nicholas
Boston
Boston Common
Robert Knaus
Patrick Henry Church
Orktown Custom House
St. John’s
Robert C. Winthrop
Dre
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