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Show Hamilton Home a Museum Alexander Hamilton's old home, Hamilton Grange, is all set as one of the show spots of New York city. It was built about 1S01 and became a meeting place ' for many well-known well-known statesmen of that day. But Hamilton did not long enjoy it. He went forth one morning in 1804 and met Aaron Burr, in a duel which resulted re-sulted fatally for Hamilton. His widow, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, did not long reside there but disposed dis-posed of it to strangers. About 80 years later it was bought by a church which in turn sold It to the American Ameri-can Science and Historical Preservation Preserva-tion society in 1924. It was thoroughly thorough-ly renovated, Hamilton relics secured as the nucleus of a collection and was formally opened as a museum. Pathfinder Magazine. |