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Site of the Dongan Oak

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At the Battle of Long Island, on the hill to the north of this site, the Americans had a redoubt with two guns, to guard the Old Valley Grove Road, called by the early settlers the "Porte", meaning gate-way through the hills, and which ran in front of...

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