Portal:Hudson Valley/Did you know/20


 * ... that according to legend, George Washington personally stopped an angry mob from burning St. Philip's Church in the Highlands (pictured)?
 * ... that since 2002, New York's Middletown High School has seen the district superintendent convicted of sexual abuse, had one principal resign and another suspended, had two student walkouts and was ordered to reinstate a teacher?
 * ... that Colonel Johnston de Peyster raised the first U.S. flag over Virginia's Capitol Building since the state's secession in 1861?

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