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President Lincoln Returns to Peekskill
Lincoln Society commemorates 151st Anniversary of Lincoln's stop in Peekskill on the way to his inauguration.
Abraham Lincoln famously traveled by train to his inauguration in Washington, D.C. 151 years ago. He stopped in Peekskill where he made a brief speech to the crowd that had gathered.
The Lincoln Society in Peekskill re-enacted the event Saturday morning and the "president-elect," strikingly portrayed by local resident Michael Griest, walked alongside Civil War re-enactors and Lincoln Society members dressed in period clothing. Griest then recreated Lincoln's brief speech before a large crowd.
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