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The Bedford flag on display at the Bedford Free Public Library is the oldest known surviving intact battle flag in the United States. It is celebrated for having been the first U.S. flag flown during the American Revolutionary War, as it is believed to have been carried by Nathaniel Page's outfit of Minutemen to the Old North Bridge in Concord for the Battle of Concord on April 19, 1775.
Also facing the common is Bedford's town hall, which was built in 1857 as a school, and has seen a variety of civic uses before housing town offices. When the district was listed on the National Register in 1977, its period of significance extended to 1927; in 2014, the district underwent boundary adjustments that increased its size by 20 acres ...
The Woodpile is a historic family estate and national historic district located at Bedford, Westchester County, New York.The district contains 17 contributing buildings, four contributing sites, and nine contributing structures.
The buildings date between 1750 and 1930, and include notable examples of Greek Revival, Italianate and Federal style architecture. Notable non-residential buildings include the oldest building in Bedford County: Fortified Bedford House (1758), Fort Bedford Museum (in the style of the 1750s ~ the building itself was constructed in 1958), Neptune House (c. 1880), G. C. Murphy Company Building ...
A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
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United States historic place Bedford Village Historic District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district Bedford Firehouse and Bedford Free Library Show map of New York Show map of the United States Location Roughly bounded by Court, Seminary, Poundridge and Greenwich Rds., Bedford, New York Coordinates 41°12′15″N 73°38′23″W / 41.2042620°N 73.6398507 ...
English: A map of the Bedford area of HRM. Halifax Regional Municipality makes no representations, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the information and data contained on this plot.