1776 was when the REV War STARTED!! I went to the URL you provided and it appears to me that the Evacuation Day you're talking about is local to Boston......or are you joking with us?? How far Upstate in NY?? I grew up in Dutchess County. Maureen ----- Original Message ----- From: <chommel6@comcast.net> To: <gen-nys@rootsweb.com>; <GEN-NYS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 2:30 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-NYS] Tomorrow is the 223rd Anniversary of Evacuation Day > You must be kidding <BBG>. Evacuation Day celebrates the day the Brits > left > Boston, on March 13, 1776. Go to > http://www-tech.mit.edu/V118/N14/ring.14c.html for the correct story. > > Carl Hommel (Upstate NY bred, but fortunately removed to Massachusetts. I > even yell for the Red Sox!) > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: Soyamaven@aol.com >> >> Now almost forgotten, Evacuation Day was celebrated as a holiday long >> before >> the Fourth of July: >> >> On November 25, 1783, the British Army boarded their naval vessels and >> evacuated New York City (then only coterminous with New York County), >> their >> wartime >> headquarters and their last military position in the United States during >> the >> Revolutionary War. >> >> As the British sailed away south in retreat through the Narrows >> separating >> Staten Island on the west and Long Island on the east, the last thing >> they > saw, >> as their ships sunk below the horizon, was the Flag of the United States >> of >> America flying atop the Liberty Pole (an extended flag pole) in the >> frontyard > of >> the Dutch Reformed Church in the Hamlet of New Utrecht, Town of New >> Utrecht, >> in the south-central part of Kings County. Today this location is at >> Christopher Columbus Boulevard (18th Avenue) and Liberty Pole Boulevard >> (84th >> Street) >> in the Bensonhurst neighborhood in the south-central part of the New York >> City >> Borough of Brooklyn. (The NYC Borough of Brooklyn is coterminous with the >> NYS >> Kings County). >> >> Replaced six times over the years, the 106' Liberty Pole is the last >> remaining Liberty Pole in the original thirteen United States. On top of >> the >> Pole is >> the original eagle and weathervane. The eagle is made of wood and has a >> 5' >> wingspan. After two hundred and twenty-two years, the weather has >> weakened it >> considerably and it has been reinforced with iron bands. >> >> The eagle has looked over the bay and seen many sailing vessels, >> steamships >> and war ships. It has been said that the eyes of this golden eagle has >> looked >> upon more change in the worldâ?Ts history than occurred from the days of >> Nebuchadnezzar to the day when the eagle was raised. >> >> Here's the URL for the New Utrecht Liberty Pole Association: >> http://www.historicnewutrecht.org/LPA.html >> >> Here's the URL for the Dutch Reformed Church: >> http://www.newutrechtchurch.org/ >> >> >> I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. >> >> Regards, >> >> Walter Greenspan >> Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GEN-NYS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GEN-NYS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >