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Photo Tour of Civil War Monument & Union Graves in Nyack, NY

Nyack, New York is one of the most driven-through of the Hudson River villages in the Mid-Hudson Region. The western terminus of the new Mario…

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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…

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