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elleng

(139,192 posts) Fri Apr 18, 2025, 09:21 PM 12 hrs ago

Sybil Ludington

Sybil Ludington was 16 years old when she rode 40 miles on horseback one night in April 1777 to warn her father's troops about a British attack on Danbury, Connecticut!!!!

https://www.historicamerica.org/journal/2021/2/28/csek71aqux7oh1iq1vt9522bjqepsb

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Sybil Ludington (Original Post) elleng 12 hrs ago OP

Cool story! Easterncedar 11 hrs ago #1

TY for this! electric_blue68 8 hrs ago #2

I love that name ❤️❤️ Meowmee 6 hrs ago #3

Love it. Women have always been there with their men, one way and another... Hekate 6 hrs ago #4

There is a Ludingtonville Road exit off Interstate 84 in Putnam County, NY. Straw Man 5 hrs ago #5

Easterncedar

(4,247 posts)

1. Cool story!

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Fri Apr 18, 2025, 10:51 PM

11 hrs ago

electric_blue68

(20,848 posts)

2. TY for this!

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat Apr 19, 2025, 01:41 AM

8 hrs ago

Meowmee

(8,596 posts)

3. I love that name ❤️❤️

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat Apr 19, 2025, 03:12 AM

6 hrs ago

Hekate

(97,244 posts)

4. Love it. Women have always been there with their men, one way and another...

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat Apr 19, 2025, 03:38 AM

6 hrs ago

Always.

But don’t tell Whiskey Pete — to him that’s just DEI stuff.

Straw Man

(6,856 posts)

5. There is a Ludingtonville Road exit off Interstate 84 in Putnam County, NY.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat Apr 19, 2025, 04:18 AM

5 hrs ago

I believe this was part of the hamlet of Ludingtonville, where her family's mill was based. Apparently the hamlet was mostly torn down for construction of the interstate.

Speaking of historical sites that are now just names, just a short hop further east on I-84 you could once see the Danbury Fairgrounds, with its 19th-century race track and grandstand, built originally for horse-racing but later used for stock car races. In the '80s it was all torn down to build ... the "Danbury Fair Mall." Talk about insult to injury ...

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