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Ulster County Courthouse
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Shannon
November 17, 2019
The present Ulster County Courthouse, constructed in 1789, has played a key role in both local and New York State history. All around the courthouse are lovely storefronts, shops and restaurants. Worth spending the day walking around.
Mercedes
September 25, 2016
Built in 1818 in the late Georgian style, the courthouse was erected on the same site where the original smaller limestone county courthouse stood. It was in the original Ulster County Courthouse that New York State was officially born in 1777. The New York State Constitution was written in its rooms and adopted on April 20, 1777. On July 30, New York’s first freely elected governor, George Clinton, took the oath of office at the courthouse. That same year, New York State’s first Supreme Court session was held here, headed by Justice John Jay. The 1818 courthouse was the site of a history-making event too when an Ulster County slave woman, Sojourner Truth, sued to regain her son who was sold to a family in Alabama. Truth won the suit, won her freedom from slavery and went on to become a nationally noted Abolitionist.
Built in 1818 in the late Georgian style, the courthouse was erected on the same site where the original smaller limestone county courthouse stood. It was in the original Ulster County Courthouse that New York State was officially born in 1777. The New York State Constitution was written in its room…
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Kingston, NY
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