Rhinecliff in Dutchess County, New York — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
On This Site Stood
Photographed by Lee Rubenstein, February 23, 2024
1. On This Site Stood Marker
On this site stood Jane King, whose white male coworkers earn 39% more than she does for doing the same work.
Erected 2007 by Education Department.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Civil Rights • Industry & Commerce • Women.
Location. 41° 55.132′ N, 73° 57.082′ W. Marker is in Rhinecliff, New York, in Dutchess County. It is on Kelly Street (County Road 85) just south of Shatzell Avenue (County Route 9) when traveling west. The marker stands next to Morton Memorial Library. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 81 Kelly St, Rhinecliff NY 12574, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Upstate New York and in the Hudson Valley. It is also in the American Northeast and in the Mid-Atlantic. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Netherland and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Kingston Point Beach (approx. one mile away); The Cornell Shops Building (approx. 1.4 miles away); Hasbrouck Park Trail (approx. 1½ miles away); The Kingston-Rhinecliff Ferry (approx. 1½ miles away); The Cornell Steamboat Company (approx. 1½ miles away); Fultons Playground: Fun with Steamboats (approx. 1½ miles away); Rondout-Sleighsburg Ferry: Riverside, a.k.a. Skillypot (approx. 1½ miles away); Mary Powell Bell (approx. 1½ miles away).
Additional commentary.
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1. Attribution of the marker
An Education Department may have erected this sign but not the State Education Department of New York as the marker implies by using this legend. NYS DofE stopped putting up markers in this style in the early 1960s. This marker is pretending to have been created and approved by NYS DofE. Also if you look top of the sign it has a map of the US and says United States.
At first glance it looks like a state-sanctioned marker, but it's not.
— Submitted April 25, 2024.
2. What?
Anyone who doesn't immediately see that this marker was intended as a joke has a severe deficiency of the funny bone.
— Submitted April 26, 2024, by Lee Rubenstein of Germantown, New York.
Credits. This page was last revised on April 29, 2024. It was originally submitted on April 22, 2024, by Lee Rubenstein of Germantown, New York. This page has been viewed 256 times since then and 20 times this year. Photo 1. submitted on April 22, 2024, by Lee Rubenstein of Germantown, New York. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.
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