Schumer Legislation to Help Fishkill Revolutionary War Camp Access Federal Preservation Dollars Set to Clear Major Legislative Hurdle

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Named over three decades ago as "the last of the important Revolutionary War sites yet to be properly explored," the Fishkill Supply Depot remains so today: a one-of-a-kind site of national importance that has never gotten its due. Fishkill, New York, contains a key strategic center of the American Revolution, established and visited repeatedly by George Washington. Hallowed history happened here - hundreds of the original soldiers who fought to found the nation died and were buried here in unknown graves.

19th-century view of the area that had housed the Fishkill Supply Depot encampment a century earlier. The view is not entirely unfamiliar to anyone driving south from Fishkill on Route 9 today, going by Home Depot heading towards the Hudson Highlands.