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History Explorers Club: It's Our Birthday!
April 17, 2021 from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Making the Museum: Washington's War Tent
Finding Freedom: Andrew - Additional Revolutionary War Pension Deposition
One year after he initially applied for a Revolutionary War pension from the United States Government, Andrew Ferguson returned to the courthouse in Monroe County, Indiana, to share more details about his military service during the war. This document records his additional testimony. Ferguson declared that he had hoped to apply for a pension 17 years earlier in response to Congress’s 1818 law that allowed impoverished Revolutionary War veterans to apply for financial support from the United States Government. However, at the time, Ferguson was told that “a Colored man could not get a pension.” Many veterans of African descent applied for and received pensions according to the 1818 legislation, but they encountered racial discrimination and intimidation during the application process.
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Educator Open House 2023
October 21, 2023, from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
George Washington's Headquarters Flag
June 14-17, 2018Newly Discovered Watercolor Featuring Washington’s War Tent Anchors Limited-Run Exhibit “Among His Troops,” Jan. 13 – Feb. 19
A Women’s War: Teaching the Role of Women in the Revolutionary War
March 30, 2022 from 7-8:30 p.m.