1 posted on
12/13/2011 2:30:19 PM PST by
NYer
To: SunkenCiv
Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York bordering the north bank of the Mohawk River. It was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 at the Battle of Quebec. The county seat is Fonda.
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2 posted on
12/13/2011 2:32:20 PM PST by
NYer
("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
To: NYer
Very cool, NYer! Thanks for posting!
To: NYer
To: NYer
Cool!
I often wonder what lies beneath our feet from other times.
5 posted on
12/13/2011 2:36:35 PM PST by
Palladin
(Santorum/Bachmann 2012.)
To: Pharmboy
10 posted on
12/13/2011 2:50:10 PM PST by
NonValueAdded
("Centralization destroys the blight of monopoly")
To: NYer
Nothing new here . We have paved over Most of Our History. And will continue to do so. God Bless the Bulldozer.
13 posted on
12/13/2011 3:06:58 PM PST by
dbrew2u
To: Pharmboy; SunkenCiv
To: NYer
Irene’s flood waters tore up the parking lot at the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site With apologies to Joni Mitchell:
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging British Fort
21 posted on
12/13/2011 4:00:37 PM PST by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Irish Eyes
To: NYer
Schoharie Valley was a critical theater during the War of Independence. There is an excellent history of the valley up to about 1820 available online. I highly recommend it for a view of what the war was really like. We tend to get a highly sanitized version of it these days.
23 posted on
12/13/2011 5:10:54 PM PST by
chb
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