Fishkill Supply Depot Historic Site

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Continental Village

On October 9, 1777, after capturing Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton, Sir Henry Clinton ordered British troops to burn and sack Continental Village, the American post with barracks for 1,500, store houses and fully loaded supply wagons. Soon restored, Continental Village continued to serve as an important position at the entrance to the Highlands for American Army reconnoitering and was a source of water and supplies for the troops throughout the Revolutionary War.

144 years later, on October 9, 1921, the Putnam County Historical Society (also known as today’s Putnam History Museum) and Stuyvesant Fish unveiled this memorial to The Mothers of the Revolution at Continental Village, at today’s intersection of Old Albany Post Road and Sprout Brook Road in Philipstown.

It reads, “In memory of the mothers of the Revolution, who watched and prayed while our fathers fought that we might be free.” This monument features local quarried granite from/near then-Stuyvesant Fish’s Continental Village Farm, with a commemorative tablet by Gorham and three fourteen-inch shot.

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