Beacon to Newburgh's Washington's Headquarters, 7-8 miles

About this event

**Please read the entire trip description 3 or 4 times before responding or asking questions. Please, please, please do not rsvp for this walk unless you intend to come. Please change your RSVP as soon as you know you can't attend after all, but no later than Wed. Aug. 26, to allow others to take your place.** Meet at the Clock at 8:40 to take the 8:56am train from Grand Central to Beacon, (Senior one way off peak fare is $12.50, adult is $18.50; The bus from Newburgh to Beacon is $1.00) Please look for me on the Beacon platform. Do not leave the platform. Use the restroom on the train, no later than 3 stops prior so you don't miss disembarking at Beacon. **There are no restrooms at the Beacon station.** Drivers, please let me know if you will be on the northbound station at 10:30am. We'll walk to Newburgh over the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge. We'll make our way to Thomas Edison's second site in New York State to be electrified, a former woolen mill, now a transformer station, (the first was a Pearl Street, Manhattan shirtwaist factory). We'll also stop at the Ritz theater, where Desi and Lucy got their start! The Beacon Public Library has great bathrooms and wonderful views of the Hudson. There's a historic church nearby. This is where we will eat lunch. Onward to **Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site**, also called **Hasbrouck House**, overlooking the [Hudson River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River). [George Washington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington) lived there while he was in command of the [Continental Army](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Army) during the final year of the [American Revolutionary War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War); it had the longest tenure as his headquarters of any place he had used. In 1961 the house was designated a state [historic site](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_site). It is also the oldest house in the city of Newburgh, and the first property acquired…