2022 Saratoga Yorktown

Oct 24

As a prelude to the Lower Manhattan Historical Association (LMHA)’s annual Saratoga Yorktown Celebration commemorating the American victories of Saratoga on October 17, 1777 and Yorktown on October 19, 1781, visit sites in Lower Manhattan affiliated with Marinus Willett, Alexander Hamilton and Horatio Gates, the key generals in these important battles. This unique tour will visit little-known places in plain sight of which many New Yorkers are unaware relating to New York City’s Revolutionary War history.

Saratoga - Yorktown Generals Tour

James S Kaplan, Former President/co-Founder Lower Manhattan Historical Association

Marinus Willett Historical Marker at 60 Broad Street

To commemorate the gallant and patriotic act of Marinus Willett in here seizing, June 6th, 1775, from British forces the muskets with which he armed his troops. Erected 1892 by Society of the Sons of the Revolution

Nolan Asch, Alexander Hamiltion Awareness Society, James S. Kaplan, Co-Founder and Former President LMHA