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It all started when…

This lovely Greek Revival house was built in the 1840’s, but the circumstances that would lead to it construction began earlier in 1825 in the State of New York. When the Erie Canal was completed, a cask of water was loaded onto a barge and transported to the mouth of the Hudson River. NY Governor Dewitt Clinton poured the water into the Atlantic Ocean in a ceremony marking ‘the marriage of the waters. On the same day of the ceremony, in Newburg, NY, Charles Miller Croswell was born to Sallie Hicks and John Croswell. This child would one day be the Governor of a state which didn’t exist at the time.