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TOWN OF WARWICK NY USA@250 COMMITTEE: DISCOVER

Information about the Town of Warwick's celebration of the nation's 250th Anniversary

 

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Meetings are 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.

2026 Quarterly Committee Meetings: Feb. 3; May 5

2026 Commemorative Events

  • January 18, 2PM. Lecture on environmental context & impact of the Revolutionary War (Albert Wisner Library).
  • Feb-March date TBA Installation of the John Clark Murder historical marker at Dutch Hollow.
  • Thursdays Feb 4-March 12: "Watch Party for Ken Burns Revolutionary War series, 6PM, Albert Wisner Library
  • March 21: Warwick Day at Sterling Iron Works 10-4, Sterling Forest State Park, Lautenberg Visitors Center
  • April 26 (date & venue tentative):  Revolutionary War in Orange County "History Fair" organized by Alex Prizgintas
  • May 17: Annual Founders’ Day at the Gen. John Hathorn historic site: Honoring Our Founding Veterans.  A living history activities campus and "meet and greet" with some of Warwick's Revolutionary War Veterans.
  • July 4:  Official Town of Warwick USA@250 Parade, 11 AM, Village of Greenwood Lake
  • July 4:  Fireworks at Greenwood Lake
  • July 22:  Battle of Minisink Commemoration, 6:30 PM Annual reading of Hathorn's Battle of Minisink report, Warwick Cemetery

*** The three public libraries in town are coordinating programming celebrating USA@250, check their program schedules.

VISIT THE REVOLUTIONARY WARWICK WEBSITE!

 

For more info email Sue Gardner, Town of Warwick Historian:

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

REVOLUTIONARY WARwick INTERACTIVE

DRAFT: Map showing some of the many Revolutionary War sites in the Town of Warwick, with links to further information.

 

 

COMMEMORATION PLANNING FACETS

  • Parade & Fireworks
  • Map of Local Sites & Activity Using Map
  • Website Map/Links to Webpage with more info.
  • Founders Day at Hathorn historical site
  • Calendar of Community Events (libraries, organizations, etc.)
  • New Historical Marker Dedication, Greenwood Lake
  • Outreach to schools