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Article: BUILDING ON HISTORY VILLAGE WANTS IDENTITY AS WAR OF 1812 BATTLE SITE.(Local)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 2, 1990
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Byline: Joel Stashenko Associated Press
The Revolutionary War has its Concord and Yorktown, the Mexican-American War its Alamo.
Memorials to the Civil War stretch from Gettysburg to Vicksburg.
Sackets Harbor wants the same identification with the War of 1812, when the Jefferson County village served as the most important naval base on the most strategic body of water during what was possibly the most obscure conflict in American history.
After generations of decaying on its scenic bluff overlooking Henderson Bay and Lake Ontario beyond, Sackets Harbor is enjoying an economic rebirth spearheaded by the restoration of aged landmarks, not ...