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Website title: A Journey through NYC religions | To explore, document and explain the great religious changes that are taking place in New York City

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On June 19, 1865, two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln’s historic Emancipation Proclamation, U.S. Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3, which informed the people of Texas that all enslaved people were now free. Granger commanded the Headquarters District of Texas, and his troops had arrived in Galveston the previous day. […]

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Among the many innovations to change the city for the better, none was more exciting and more curiously related to religion than the roller coaster. On this day June 16 in 1884, Lemarcus Adna Thompson opened the first roller coaster built in America. There were some other ideas for a roller coaster that were never […]

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On June 15, 1904, the General Slocum sank in the East River while carrying the whole congregation of St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church from the Lower East Side to a church picnic on Long Island. An estimated 1,021 of the 1,331 people on board died. The General Slocum disaster was the New York area’s worst […]

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