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To: rex regnum insanit
Afterward the British occupied most of the Island including the Town of Huntington.

When I first moved to Huntington, I was intrigued by the town seal.

I later learned that the letter E was assigned by the British making Huntington the 5th colony in NY. Even more interesting was Fort Golgotha. The fort, which takes its named from Golgotha, was built by British troops on orders of Colonel Thompson, commander of the King's American Dragoons, in 1782, on the site of the town burial ground. The nearby Presbyterian Church was dismantled, and its timbers used in the forts construction. The British used the tombstones to construct an oven. Bread baked in the oven would be sold to local townsfolk. The bottom of the bread bore the name of the deceased individual from the tombstone.

39 posted on 08/13/2013 5:16:58 PM PDT by NYer ( "Run from places of sin as from the plague."--St John Climacus)
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Fascinating! What did the HVN stand for?


64 posted on 08/14/2013 6:21:07 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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