New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site

Vails Gate
NY
Temple of Virtue, New Windsor Cantonment

Reconstructed Temple of Virtue,
the chapel at the cantonment

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Preserves 120 acres of the original 1,600-acre encampment for some 7,500 American troops, 1782 - 83, as the war was winding down. The site includes a recreated camp, chapel, museum, and living history demonstrations. Includes Visitor Center, which it shares with the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor.
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Washington, George

The Farm Book, plus the elaborate chronologies made by Jefferson scholars which document almost every day of his life, demonstrate that contrary to what Martha [Jefferson] Randolph told her sons, Jefferson was not only not distant from Sally Hemings but in the same house nine months before the births of each of her seven children, and that she conceived no children when he was not there.

— Fawn M. Brodie
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (1974)