GEORGE WASHINGTON
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Legends & Lore®
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Legend
- 2275 State Route 17A, Goshen, NY
- 41.376487, -74.349265
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Daughters of the American Revolution - Minisink Chapter
GEORGE WASHINGTON
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GEORGE WASHINGTONDURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
WASHINGTON STOPPED TO CHAT
WITH THE CHILDREN HERE AT
THIS OLD STONE SCHOOLHOUSE
ON HIS WAY TO NEWBURGH.
NEW YORK FOLKLORE SOCIETY
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2018
The legend goes that during the Revolutionary War, George Washington and his staff stopped to chat with children at a schoolhouse in Goshen on the way to his Newburgh headquarters. The legend is documented in Russel Headley’s “History of Orange County” (1908).
