TOWN OF WARWICK NY USA@250 COMMITTEE: Home
The notes from the first meeting on Nov. 12, 2024 are linked below. Meetings in 2025 will be held quarterly at the Town of Warwick Senior Center, King's Highway, at 6:30 PM. All Town of Warwick residents are welcome to attend.
2025 Committee Meetings: Feb. 4; May 6; Aug 5; Nov 18
Upcoming 2025 Commemorative Events:
- April 19 4PM 250th of Lexington & Concord, Ceremony for Col. John Cowdrey, Warwick Cemetery
- May 18 2-7 PM Founders' Day @ John Hathorn Home/Old Stone House Inn (on the lawn); living history activities followed at 6 by a return visit from the Baroness von Riedesel as she recalls the march of the captured army of Burgoyne through our area.
- July 22nd 6:30 PM Annual reading of Hathorn's Battle of Minisink report, Warwick Cemetery
For more info email:
RESOURCE LINKS: "LIBERTY LITERACY"
Websites:
Town of Warwick USA@250 Committee website: https://guides.rcls.org/Warwick250
REVOLUTIONARY WARwick pages: https://guides.rcls.org/revolutionarywarwick
Continental Army Supply Depot at Warwick: https://guides.rcls.org/hathornj/supplydepot
Great Chain Across the Hudson: https://guides.rcls.org/chain
John Hathorn’s Revolutionary Legacy: https://guides.rcls.org/hathornj/hathorn
Warwick Valley Heritage: https://guides.rcls.org/warwickvalleyhistory
Books:
Pure Necessity: Revolution at Warwick by S. Gardner
People of the Valleys Revisited by Dr. Richard Hull
So Many Brave Men by Mark Hendrickson
Videos:
First to Serve: New Research on Warwick in the Revolution (2018)
(Youtube: Search for the keywords)
Databases:
Warwick Valley Heritage: https://albertwisner-montage.auto-graphics.com/
Subpage for Rev War documents:
https://albertwisner-montage.auto-graphics.com/#/land-page/entities_8834
PLANNING RESOURCES
- Orange County 250th GuideDraft version of themes, sites, and history for Orange County's celebration of the nation's 250th anniversary.
- Orange County "Themes" for the 250thHelpful organizing themes for connecting local communities & their history.