From the site: Ray and Cindy's RV Travels - Historic Huguenot Street
Accord, New York High 79 Low 52Today we drove to the town of New Paltz. There are some old stone houses, a stone church, and a stone fort some dating from the late 1600’s. We got to go through 4 houses, but were only allowed to take pictures in two of them.Followers of Protestant theologian John Calvin, a group of Huguenots from northern France and what is now southern Belgium sought safety from religious persecution in Europe in the 1600s, first by fleeing to die Pfalz in Germany, and then to America. In 1678, hoping to protect their religion and culture, they established a community in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York, having been granted 40,000 acres by the English government. That community grew and prospered, becoming the dynami ...Read more...
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