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Bedford Village Historic District
The Bedford Village Historic District is a national historic district in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. The district contains 80 contributing buildings and one contributing site. It encompasses most of the original 1680 hamlet and is laid out in a typical village green plan. Notable buildings include the court house (1787), library (1807), school house (1829), post office (c. 1838), and Presbyterian church (1872). The buildings are good examples of the Greek Revival and Gothic Revival styles. Two of the buildings are now museums. History Bedford is northeast of New York City. It is on hilly terrain with light soil. The settlers in Bedford came from Connecticut around 1680 and built a hamlet. The pattern of the settlement is common in Massachusetts but rare in New York State. The town was planned around a triangular common where three roads met. Around it were at first three plots, which were assigned by lot to the first 20 settlers who planned to farm in common. The co ...
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Bedford (CDP), New York
Bedford is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located in the town of Bedford in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 1,834 at the 2010 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the community has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.35%, is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 1,724 people, 577 households, and 492 families residing in the community. The population density was 468.0 per square mile (180.9/km2). There were 600 housing units at an average density of 162.9/sq mi (63.0/km2). The racial makeup of the community was 96.75% White, 0.29% Black or African American, 1.86% Asian, 0.41% from other races, and 0.70% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.32% of the population. There were 577 households, out of which 44.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 77.5% were married couples living together, 5.4% had a female householder with no husband pre ...
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John Jay
John Jay (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, patriot, diplomat, abolitionist, signatory of the Treaty of Paris, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served as the second governor of New York and the first chief justice of the United States. He directed U.S. foreign policy for much of the 1780s and was an important leader of the Federalist Party after the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788. Jay was born into a wealthy family of merchants and New York City government officials of French Huguenot and Dutch descent. He became a lawyer and joined the New York Committee of Correspondence, organizing American opposition to British policies such as the Intolerable Acts in the leadup to the American Revolution. Jay was elected to the First Continental Congress, where he signed the Continental Association, and to the Second Continental Congress, where he served as its president. From 1779 to 1782, Jay served as the ambassador ...
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Greek Revival Architecture In New York (state)
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Gothic Revival Architecture In New York (state)
The following is a list of notable buildings in the Gothic Revival style. Argentina * Cathedral of Bariloche * Cathedral of La Plata * Cathedral of Luján * Cathedral of Mar del Plata Australia * Scots' Church, Melbourne * Vaucluse House Sydney Regency Gothic. * Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the old Government stable block. * Government House, Sydney * St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney * St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney * Sydney University, the main building, commenced 1850s, extended 20th century * St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne * St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne * Melbourne University – Main Building, Newman College and Ormond College * The Collins Street group in Melbourne – Rialto buildings, Former Stock Exchange, Gothic Bank, Goode House and Olderfleet buildings and Safe Deposit Building * St David's Cathedral, Hobart * Government House, Hobart * Perth Town Hall * Newington College, founders block * Church of the Apostles, Launceston Austria * Votivkirche ...
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Historic Districts On The National Register Of Historic Places In New York (state)
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. History is not complete and still has debatable mysteries. History is also an academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the nature of history as an end in itself, as well as its usefulness to give perspective on the problems of the p ...
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The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ...
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Westmoreland Sanctuary
Westmoreland or Westmorland may refer to: Places *Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia *Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada *Westmorland Parish, New Brunswick, Canada *Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica *Westmorland, New Zealand, a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand *Westmorland, a historic county in England *Westmorland and Furness, a unitary authority area in England United States * Westmorland, California, or Westmoreland * Westmoreland, Kansas * Westmoreland, New Hampshire * Westmoreland, New York, a town ** Westmoreland (CDP), New York, a census-designated place in the town * Westmoreland, Queens, New York City * Westmoreland, Tennessee * Westmoreland, West Virginia * Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania * Westmoreland County, Virginia * Westmoreland (Toledo, Ohio), a neighborhood * Westmoreland, Portland, Oregon * Westmoreland City, Pennsylvania * State of Westmoreland (1784 failed proposal) Electoral districts *Westmorland (electoral district), a federal electora ...
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Anglican Church
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide . Adherents of Anglicanism are called ''Anglicans''; they are also called ''Episcopalians'' in some countries. The majority of Anglicans are members of national or regional ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, which forms the third-largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. These provinces are in full communion with the See of Canterbury and thus with the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom the communion refers to as its ''primus inter pares'' (Latin, 'first among equals'). The Archbishop calls the decennial Lambeth Conference, chairs the meeting of primates, and is the pres ...
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Bedford Presbyterian Church (New York)
The Bedford Presbyterian Church is a parish church in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. The current structure was built in 1872 in the Gothic Revival style, as the fourth building for the congregation on the site. The historic building is part of the Bedford Village Historic District, and was listed in 1973. It also serves as a venue for performances of sacred music. History Bedford Presbyterian Church was founded in 1680. In its first years, the church was either Congregational or Anglican, depending on the minister. The church is the fourth building on the site on the village green in Bedford. The cornerstone was laid and services celebrating the dedication of the then-most-recently-restored building were held in 1872. The first minister, Reverend Thomas Denham, settled in 1684, and a meeting house was built in 1689. When Bedford became part of New York, this house was transferred to Rye, New York. Bedford was part of the Anglican Church until the Revolution. A second me ...
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Bedford Presbyterian Church 3
Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population of the Bedford built-up area (including Biddenham and Kempston) was 106,940, making it the second-largest settlement in Bedfordshire, behind Luton, whilst the Borough of Bedford had a population of 157,479. Bedford is also the historic county town of Bedfordshire. Bedford was founded at a ford on the River Great Ouse and is thought to have been the burial place of King Offa of Mercia, who is remembered for building Offa's Dyke on the Welsh border. Bedford Castle was built by Henry I, although it was destroyed in 1224. Bedford was granted borough status in 1165 and has been represented in Parliament since 1265. It is known for its large population of Italian descent. History The name of the town is believed to derive from the name of a Saxon chief called Beda, and a ford crossing the River Great Ouse. Bedford was a market town for the surrounding agricultural region from the early Middl ...
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Schoolhouse In The Bedford Village Historic District 1
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was previously the nation's second vice president of the United States, vice president under John Adams and the first United States Secretary of State, United States secretary of state under George Washington. The principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating Thirteen Colonies, American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation. He produced formative documents and decisions at state, national, and international levels. During the American Revolution, Jefferson represented Virginia in the Continental Congress that adopted the Declaration of Independence. As ...
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