List Of New York State Historic Markers In Ulster County, New York
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list of New York State Historic Markers This is a list of New York State Historic Markers by county. There are over 2800 historical markers in New York State. The program was started in 1926 to commemorate the Sesquicentennial of the Revolutionary War and was discontinued in 1966. ...
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Ulster County, New York Ulster County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. It is situated along the Hudson River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 181,851. The county seat is Kingston. The county is named after the Irish province of Ulster. History ...
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Listings County-Wide

(147 Markers) This list does not include the satirical markers in Ulster County erected by artist
Norm Magnusson Norm Magnusson (born March 20, 1960) is a New York City, New York-based artist and political activist and founder, in 1991, of the art movement ''funism''; he began his career creating allegorical animal paintings with pointed social commentaries. ...
to resemble official Historic Markers. Such markers are distinguished by official Markers by displaying a map of the continental United States with the words "UNITED STATES" above the map at the top of the sign (official Markers in Ulster County usually display a map of New York State (sometimes with the map placed in between the words "NEW" and "YORK") and at the bottom, displaying the words "EDUCATION DEPARTMENT", aping the "STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT" that erects the official Markers. Magnusson's satirical markers further distinguish themselves from official Markers by placing the words "ON THIS SITE STOOD" on the same part of, and the same size as, the part of the sign where the name of the event/place/person(s) that the official Marker commemorates is placed. Magnusson's markers do not represent actual historical events, places or people but are intended to make a political point on issues that Magnusson feels need to be discussed and addressed. For example, in Woodstock, Magnusson erected a marker (at the coordinates 42°02′26.0″N 74°07′10.4″W) "commemorating" a fictitious Patriot called "Rob't Hass" that reads "ON THIS SITE STOOD AMERICAN PATRIOT ROB'T HASS WHO BELIEVED THAT A HEALTHY DEMOCRACY MUST DISCOURAGE APATHY AND RESPECT DISSENT. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, 2006".https://www.recordonline.com/article/20120102/NEWS/201020308


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List of New York State Historic Markers This is a list of New York State Historic Markers by county. There are over 2800 historical markers in New York State. The program was started in 1926 to commemorate the Sesquicentennial of the Revolutionary War and was discontinued in 1966. ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Ulster County, New York List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Ulster County, New York This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Ulster County, New York. The locatio ...
* National Register of Historic Places listings in New York *
List of National Historic Landmarks in New York This is a list of National Historic Landmarks and comparable other historic sites designated by the U.S. government in the U.S. state of New York. The United States National Historic Landmark (NHL) program operates under the auspices of the Nat ...

Historical Marker Databse for Ulster County


References

{{Reflist Ulster County, New York
Ulster Ulster (; ga, Ulaidh or ''Cúige Uladh'' ; sco, label= Ulster Scots, Ulstèr or ''Ulster'') is one of the four traditional Irish provinces. It is made up of nine counties: six of these constitute Northern Ireland (a part of the United King ...