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A brick church, seen uphill from a corner, with a tall white steeple. One of its front windows has been boarded up.

... that in the early years of the First Baptist Church of Ossining (pictured), the oldest in the village, masters and slaves had equal status as members of the congregation?
... that a mural in the Spring Valley, New York, post office, called Waiting for the Mail, shows how mail can reach even the most isolated person?
... that both the textile mills and residence of Nathan Wild, a prominent local figure in Columbia County, New York, are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places?

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