SETAUKET (WABC) — Suffolk County is marking America’s 250th anniversary with what is being dubbed ‘the largest traveling American Revolution Exhibit.’
“I think Suffolk County is the breeding ground of the entire revolution,” Nancy Dorney, Head of the Anna Smith Strong Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, said.
A massive traveling American Revolution exhibit was opened to the public as part of the 250th celebration.
“They were truly fighting for their homeland and for something that they had fought to establish,” Dorney said.
Dorney says the display is nationally distributed by the American Battlefield Trust.
It features artifacts, maps, reenactors, and the new Suffolk 250th passport book and stamp, which can be stamped at the exhibit in the Denison Building and various historical locations county-wide.
“It’s important to celebrate our history and look at our youth, and see how we can educate them to move forward,” Mary Alice Visnefsky with Daughters of the American Revolution said.
“All throughout Long Island, there are revolutionary heroes that played major and minor roles,” President of Long Island Cemetery Preservation Group Rob Von Bernewitz said.
Bernewitz says maintaining gravesites of the Revolutionary War leaders is vital.
Grave sites are important because they are permanent structures and throughout the years, many documents have been lost to fires and time.
“Right over here is the grave of Abraham Woodhul. He was the Long Island leader of the Culper spy ring,” Bernewitz said.
The Culper Spy Ring was an intelligence network formed to spy on the British and monitor their movement. It was an integral part of winning the war.
“It’s very important to keep this information going to honor the people who fought for our country and gave us our freedoms and liberties we enjoy today,” Bernewitz said.
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