About: Knox's Headquarters State Historic Site

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Knox's Headquarters State Historic Site, in the town of New Windsor in Orange County, New York, consists of the Georgian house of the Ellison family, built in 1754 by immigrant William Bull of Hamptonburgh, NY, and the grounds around it. The site is located on Old Forge Hill Road, just south of Route 94 east of Vails Gate. Although most closely associated with Henry Knox, who used it as his headquarters as the Revolutionary War drew to a close in the early 1780s, it was used as a general's headquarters throughout most of the war, by Nathanael Greene and Horatio Gates.

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  • Die Knox’s Headquarters State Historic Site bezeichnet einen Gebäudekomplex und das umliegende Grundstück in der Stadt New Windsor im Orange County, Bundesstaat New York, Vereinigte Staaten. Das Gebäude im Stil Georgianischer Architektur wurde 1754 erbaut. Während des Amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieges diente es als Hauptquartier von General Henry Knox, weshalb es seinen Namen erhielt. Danach wurde es auch von den Generälen Nathanael Greene und Horatio Gates als Hauptquartier genutzt. Heute wird das Anwesen von öffentlicher Hand betrieben und dient als Museum. Der Jane Colden Memorial Garden erinnert an die Botanikerin Jane Colden und zeigt ausschließlich von ihr beschriebene Pflanzen der Region. Die Knox’s Headquarters State Historic Site wurde im November 1972 als National Historic Landmark anerkannt und in das National Register of Historic Places aufgenommen. Es ist eine von 273 historischen Stätten nationaler Bedeutung im Bundesstaat New York. (de)
  • Knox's Headquarters State Historic Site, in the town of New Windsor in Orange County, New York, consists of the Georgian house of the Ellison family, built in 1754 by immigrant William Bull of Hamptonburgh, NY, and the grounds around it. The site is located on Old Forge Hill Road, just south of Route 94 east of Vails Gate. Although most closely associated with Henry Knox, who used it as his headquarters as the Revolutionary War drew to a close in the early 1780s, it was used as a general's headquarters throughout most of the war, by Nathanael Greene and Horatio Gates. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1972. While owned by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation the Ellison House is administered and operated by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, like many other state parks and historic sites in the mid and lower Hudson region. Today, the house can be toured when the site is open. It is used to educate visitors about how 18th-century families such as the Ellisons actually lived. On holidays and special occasions staff dress in reproduction period clothing and give special events. Staff dressed as the 2nd Continental Artillery frequently demonstrate cannon use on the grounds during special events, as Knox was best known for his command of Continental artillery. The house and its grounds were the setting and subject of the children's haunted-house novel Buried Treasure (1919), by the best-selling children's author Henry Everett McNeil. The book is illustrated with McNeil's own photographs (made circa 1911 or 1912) of the various buildings and bridge at the Knox site. The Jane Colden Plant Sanctuary along some of the trails in the nearby woods memorializes America's first female botanist, who also resided in the area. (en)
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  • Die Knox’s Headquarters State Historic Site bezeichnet einen Gebäudekomplex und das umliegende Grundstück in der Stadt New Windsor im Orange County, Bundesstaat New York, Vereinigte Staaten. Das Gebäude im Stil Georgianischer Architektur wurde 1754 erbaut. Während des Amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieges diente es als Hauptquartier von General Henry Knox, weshalb es seinen Namen erhielt. Danach wurde es auch von den Generälen Nathanael Greene und Horatio Gates als Hauptquartier genutzt. Heute wird das Anwesen von öffentlicher Hand betrieben und dient als Museum. (de)
  • Knox's Headquarters State Historic Site, in the town of New Windsor in Orange County, New York, consists of the Georgian house of the Ellison family, built in 1754 by immigrant William Bull of Hamptonburgh, NY, and the grounds around it. The site is located on Old Forge Hill Road, just south of Route 94 east of Vails Gate. Although most closely associated with Henry Knox, who used it as his headquarters as the Revolutionary War drew to a close in the early 1780s, it was used as a general's headquarters throughout most of the war, by Nathanael Greene and Horatio Gates. (en)
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