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... that Abraham Lincoln's short speech at the Peekskill Freight Depot (pictured) was his only recorded public appearance in Westchester County?
... that one local architectural historian disparaged the combination of two older houses into the current Van Rensselaer Lower Manor House in Claverack, New York, as a "growth"?
... that the Garrison Union Free School in New York traces its origins back to 1793?

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