? Walter - I am always fascinated when I read these tidbits you so generously share with us. You really should write a book. It would certainly be more interesting than most textbooks! Thank you again. Carol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Soyamaven@aol.com To: NYBROOKLYN@rootsweb.com; NYKINGS@rootsweb.com; NYNEWYOR@rootsweb.com; NYC-ROOTS@rootsweb.com Sent: Tue, Nov 23, 2010 10:55 pm Subject: [NYC-ROOTS] Happy Evacuation Day (Thursday, Novenber 25) hursday, November 25, is not only Thanksgiving Day, but, this year, is lso the 227th Anniversary of Evacuation Day. Now almost forgotten, Evacuation Day, especially in the NYC area, was elebrated as a holiday long before the Fourth of July: On November 25, 1783, the British Army boarded their naval vessels and vacuated New York City (then only coterminous with New York County), their artime headquarters and their last military position* in the United States uring the Revolutionary War. As the British sailed away south in retreat through the Narrows separating taten Island on the west and Long Island on the east, the last thing they aw, as their ships sunk below the horizon, was the Flag of the United States f America flying atop the Liberty Pole (an extended flag pole) in the rontyard 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 t Christopher Columbus Boulevard (18th Avenue) and Liberty Pole Boulevard 84th Street) in the Bensonhurst neighborhood in the south-central part of he New York City Borough of Brooklyn. (The NYC Borough of Brooklyn is oterminous with the NYS Kings County). Replaced six times over the years, the 106' Liberty Pole is the last emaining Liberty Pole in the original thirteen United States. On top of the ole s the original eagle and weathervane. The eagle is made of wood and has a ' wingspan. After two hundred and twenty-seven years, the weather has eakened it considerably and it has been reinforced with iron bands. The eagle has looked over the bay and seen many sailing vessels, steamships nd war ships. It has been said that the eyes of this golden eagle has ooked upon more change in the world's history than occurred from the days of ebuchadnezzar to the day when the eagle was raised. Here's the URL for the New Utrecht Liberty Pole Association: ttp://www.historicnewutrecht.org/LPA.html Here's the URL for the Dutch Reformed Church (celebrated its 333nd nniversary on Tuesday, October 27, 2010): ttp://www.newutrechtchurch.org/ ew Yorkers celebrated November 25 as Evacuation Day for well over a entury. But, with the warming of relations with England immediately preceding orld War I and R. H. Macy's publicity campaigns for a parade celebrating nother late November festival, Evacuation Day celebrations faded away. hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Regards, Walter Greenspan reat Falls, MT & Jericho, NY Although the Treaty of Paris of 1783 said that Britain would evacuate all osts within the new United States, they did not. Scattered posts from resent-day Vermont to present-day Michigan remained in British hands until ay's Treaty of 1795. Niagara was one of these British held forts on U. S. soil. </HTML> ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYC-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:13:06 -0400 From: "Patches" <coral4@citlink.net> Subject: [NYC-ROOTS] (no subject) To: NYC-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4CED9C02.12006.38A556C@coral4.citlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving... Cheers, Jan(patches) This! is my site: www.citlink.net/~coral4 ------------------------------ To contact the NYC-ROOTS list administrator, send an email to NYC-ROOTS-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the NYC-ROOTS mailing list, send an email to NYC-ROOTS@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYC-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of NYC-ROOTS Digest, Vol 5, Issue 246 *****************************************