TOWN OF WARWICK NY USA@250 COMMITTEE: DISCOVER
The initial meeting notes are linked below. Meeting 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.
2025-26 Quarterly Committee Meetings: Aug 5; Nov 18; Feb. 3; May 5
2026 Town Commemorative Events (see also calendar below)
- 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
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
INITIAL MEETING NOTES
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.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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