Bedford's 1806 Historical Hall LbNA #36105
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Oct 16, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Bedford |
| County: | Westchester |
| State: | New York |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | suzietoots  |
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| Found by: | a knitwit |
| Last found: | Jul 17, 2013 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Oct 16, 2007 |
Bedford's 1806 Historical Hall
608 Old Post Road
Bedford NY
Parking is available at the Church across the street. Please be careful if you are boxing with children. The driveway along side the historical hall can hold a car, I am not sure the society allows you to park there.
This old church now faces the green beside the old burying ground was built by the Methodists at Bedford Four Corners.
The Bedford Historical Hall was moved to its present site in 1837 by twenty yoke of oxen. In 1916, there was danger of being converted to an apartment house and a number of citizens purchased the building to preserve it and prevent it from being turned into a tenement. The spirited residents founded the Bedford Historical Society that same year.
The Old Burying Ground was established in 1681. The first minister of the Presbyterian church, the Rev. Thomas Denham, was buried here in 1689. His stone cannot be found. The rough, unmarked stones, some of them only a few inches high, mark the graves of slaves and paupers.
The letterbox is hidden in this cemetery. Enter the cemetery thru the driveway that sits next to the Historical Hall. There is a small staircase on the right that leads into the cemetery. As you walk you will notice a large pile of stones. Four stones sitting on top of each other. A white marble like head stone is laying on the left side of the pile. Just below the largest stone on its backside closest to the hill is a crevise. The box sits under natural debris in the crevise. Please rehide with same materials. This is a very busy place.
608 Old Post Road
Bedford NY
Parking is available at the Church across the street. Please be careful if you are boxing with children. The driveway along side the historical hall can hold a car, I am not sure the society allows you to park there.
This old church now faces the green beside the old burying ground was built by the Methodists at Bedford Four Corners.
The Bedford Historical Hall was moved to its present site in 1837 by twenty yoke of oxen. In 1916, there was danger of being converted to an apartment house and a number of citizens purchased the building to preserve it and prevent it from being turned into a tenement. The spirited residents founded the Bedford Historical Society that same year.
The Old Burying Ground was established in 1681. The first minister of the Presbyterian church, the Rev. Thomas Denham, was buried here in 1689. His stone cannot be found. The rough, unmarked stones, some of them only a few inches high, mark the graves of slaves and paupers.
The letterbox is hidden in this cemetery. Enter the cemetery thru the driveway that sits next to the Historical Hall. There is a small staircase on the right that leads into the cemetery. As you walk you will notice a large pile of stones. Four stones sitting on top of each other. A white marble like head stone is laying on the left side of the pile. Just below the largest stone on its backside closest to the hill is a crevise. The box sits under natural debris in the crevise. Please rehide with same materials. This is a very busy place.