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Soldiers’ Memorial Fountain in Poughkeepsie Was Erected During the Reconstruction Era to Honor the Region’s Union Troops
The Soldiers’ Memorial Fountain and Park in Poughkeepsie is an early example of the use of decorative architecture to memorialize the Union struggle during the…
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A “Torrent of Immigrants” Arrive in New York April 1869
While we think of the Reconstruction Era as a time of change and reaction in the South, the North was also being remade. Immigration spiked…