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Rose Hill Marker

NYC, New York, USA

234 E 22nd St, New York, NY 10010, USA

MARKER

VISITOR INFORMATION

Free roadside historical marker; visible from the public right-of-way at any time. There are no staffed hours or ticket requirements.

A roadside historical marker, free to read at any time. There is no parking area or restroom at the marker itself, so pull over only where it is safe to do so.

SITE FEATURES

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HISTORIC SITES NEARBY

Nearby Historic Sites

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WHO WAS HERE

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Tadeusz Kościuszko

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Horatio Gates

About Rose Hill Marker

This property stood within the Revolutionary-era landscape of NY - New York. Its residents, farms, roads, or local institutions contributed to the home front, although no specific major battle or documented military headquarters at the site is firmly established.

A commemorative marker is recorded for Rose Hill. The record does not establish what historic fabric survives or who maintains the site.

History happened here at Rose Hill Marker

Rose Hill Marker is associated with 1782-1806 and the history of New York. This property stood within the Revolutionary-era landscape of NY - New York. Its residents, farms, roads, or local institutions contributed to the home front, although no specific major battle or documented military headquarters at the site is firmly established.


What stands here today is commemorative evidence: a marker directing attention to a historic place or event. Its installation belongs to a later period of public remembrance, while its subject belongs to the earlier history described above. This distinction matters when evaluating authenticity and preservation. The marker may not occupy the exact footprint of every action it recalls, but it anchors the story to the closest practical viewing point and encourages the surrounding landscape to be read critically.


A house or homesite places public history within a private and domestic setting. Such properties could support farming, business, hospitality, political discussion, military lodging, or family networks, even when no formal institution operated there. Their historical value often comes from the people who lived or stayed on the land and from the decisions, labor, and relationships centered there. The setting therefore links biography and household life to events unfolding beyond the property boundaries.


This episode is best understood as part of the history of New York. That theme extended far beyond a single encounter or individual, linking local choices to regional networks and larger outcomes. The physical setting helps explain the possibilities and limits facing the people involved. Distance, terrain, transportation, resources, and public support all mattered. By locating the story here, the marker preserves evidence of how broad historical developments were experienced and shaped at ground level.


No historic place exists in isolation. Nearby destinations in the same campaign, travel corridor, community, or political network can clarify the sequence of events and the distances involved. Comparing this marker with related sites helps test the compressed story told at one stop and reveals how many small decisions and movements accumulated into larger historical outcomes.


The people connected with the site experienced the event from different positions. Officers and public leaders left many of the surviving records, but soldiers, laborers, craftspeople, women, families, enslaved people, free people of color, Indigenous communities, and travelers also shaped the functioning of historical landscapes. Not every group is documented equally in this entry, so responsible interpretation should recognize both the evidence presented and the limits of the surviving account.


The importance of the site lies in this combination of event, place, and memory. Although the present surroundings may differ sharply from those known by the people in the account, the location preserves a spatial connection that written history alone cannot provide. Careful stewardship should retain the marker, document changes to its setting, and distinguish verified facts from later tradition. In that form, the site can support a fuller understanding of the people involved and of the networks that connected this episode to wider events.

PEOPLE WHO LIVED HERE

PEOPLE WHO DIED HERE

PEOPLE AT REST HERE

EXTERNAL LINKS

Historical Marker Database: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=148007

epiphanychurch.nyc: https://www.epiphanychurch.nyc/our-history

National Park Service: https://www.nps.gov/sara/learn/historyculture/horatio-gates.htm

HMDB identifies a 1997 plaque at the Church of the Epiphany on Second Avenue and East 22nd Street, commemorating Gates's former Rose Hill estate. The parish confirms that its church occupies the mansion's former site, while NPS records Gates's later life and death in 1806. The row's 1782–1806 range should not date the standing church or plaque.

Accessed 2026-09-30

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