- ... that Abraham Lincoln's short speech at the Peekskill Freight Depot (pictured) was his only recorded public appearance in Westchester County?
- ... that one local architectural historian disparaged the combination of two older houses into the current Van Rensselaer Lower Manor House in Claverack, New York, as a "growth"?
- ... that the Garrison Union Free School in New York traces its origins back to 1793?