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, United States. The building was built in 1790 and added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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on January 25, 1973.
History
The Bow Hill mansion was built by Barnt De Klyn, (often written D'Klyn), a Boston-born descendant of French
Huguenot
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nobility and his wife Mary van Zant, a
Knickerbocker
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from Pearl Street,
Manhattan
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. De Klyn became wealthy selling textiles to the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and in the 1780s, acquired a large tract of land along the
Delaware River
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outside of
Trenton, New Jersey
Trenton is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County. It was the capital of the United States from November 1 to December 24, 1784.Philadelphia
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and
New York City
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would be the nation's capital. De Klyn and other speculators were crushed financially when the capital was decided to be built in what became Washington, DC, but by the time he had heard the news, he had finished constructing this mansion.
Among De Klyn's circle of friends was King
Joseph Bonaparte
it, Giuseppe-Napoleone Buonaparte es, José Napoleón Bonaparte
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, father = Carlo Buonaparte
, mother = Letizia Ramolino
, birth_date = 7 January 1768
, birth_place = Corte, Corsica, Republic of ...
, Napoleon's older brother, who rented Bow Hill from De Klyn to house his American wife Annette Savage, while he was living in exile at Point Breeze in nearby
Bordentown, New Jersey
Bordentown is a city in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 3,924.Ukrainian-American Cultural Center profile /ref> This center has housed numerous Ukrainian organizations, including the scouting organization
Plast
The Plast National Scout Organization of Ukraine ( uk, Пласт Національна Скаутська Організація України, ''Plast Natsionalna Skautska Orhanizatsiia Ukrayiny''), commonly called Ukrainian Plast or simply P ...
, the School of Ukrainian Studies, the Self-Reliance Federal Credit Union, the Ukrainian American Veterans, the
Ukrainian National Women's League of America
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and the Ukrainian-American Soccer Club.
See also
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Mercer County, New Jersey
List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mercer County, New Jersey
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This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Mercer County, New Jerse ...