In 1932, the 200th anniversary of George Washington’s birth was honored together with the men who fought in the American Revolution and are buried in the Town of Murray, including Robinson Smith, Washington’s Life Guard; Asa Clark, the courier who carried news to Washington of the attack on Throgs Neck; Captain Timothy Ruggles; William Jennings; Amos Frink; and Captain Aaron Warren, who built the first grist mill in the Town of Murray. Near this spot also stood the primitive log tavern kept by Epaphras Mattison, where De Witt Clinton and his companions spent a night during their eventful horseback trip through Western New York in 1810 along the Historic Ridge Road between Niagara and Genesee.