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Liberty Pole

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Near this spot, the first blood shed in Tryon County during the Revolution occurred in May 1775, when patriots attempted to erect a liberty pole. Sir William Johnson gave this or a similar stone to Francis Saltz for a mill on Schoharie Creek about 1750.
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