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Cowlesy
06-07-2008, 09:21 PM
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=82442


The 200-year-old Manhattan house that once belonged to founding father Alexander Hamilton moved a block away to a nearby park site Saturday.

The Federal style home, known as Hamilton Grange, traveled on a massive dolly from West 141st Street, down Convent Avenue to nearby St. Nicholas Park, where it will be restored to its original state.


Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first Secretary of the Treasury and founder of the New York Post, lived in the home for two years before he was killed in an 1804 duel with Aaron Burr.

Kludge
06-07-2008, 09:22 PM
... How much did THAT cost us?

James Madison
06-07-2008, 11:28 PM
I wish Alexander Hamilton would have moved out of the US before he did his damage.

sratiug
06-08-2008, 06:58 AM
I wish Alexander Hamilton would have moved out of the US before he did his damage.

I'm not Hamilton's biggest fan either, but I think during the Revolution he fought and lost a son to the cause. So I say RIP.

werdd
06-08-2008, 07:11 AM
I wish politicians would duke it out like the old days.

Disagree? Gun duel.

Madison
06-08-2008, 09:46 AM
I wish Alexander Hamilton would have moved out of the US before he did his damage.

But that was his plan...Burr did a noble deed but it was too late.