CARMEL – It was this week in 1777 that Putnam County’s 16-year-old Sybil Ludington took her legendary nighttime horseback ride to alert her father’s militia about the burning of Danbury, Connecticut. As a result, Colonel Henry Ludington’s regiment drove off the British.
To commemorate the 245th anniversary of the ride and march, the Putnam County Historian’s Office suggests a few things to do, places to go and people to see.
They include visiting Sybil Ludington’s Statue on the shore of Lake Gleneida, Carmel; catch up on all things “Sybil” featured in March 2022, Smithsonian Magazine; visiting the Ludington Graves, marked in the Town of Patterson, at Maple Avenue Cemetery, where you will see Col. Henry Ludington and Sybil Ludington’s graves.
On Friday, April 29 at 12 noon, there will be a reenactment at the Sybil statue, “Sybil Rides 245th,” where Col. Larry Maxwell, commander of the 4th New York Regiment, along with Sybil and reenactors from the Brigade of the American Revolution, the British Brigade, will join with the Continental Line, presented by the Living History Guild.
For more information, please visit www.livinghistoryguild.com
