The Kosciuska Healing Garden
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The Kosciuska Healing Garden holds the history of a communal riverbank garden and the stories of the legacy plants that grow there.

It serves as a memorial to the American Revolutionary General Thaddeus
Kosciuszko in honor of Lithuanian Ruthenian and Polish Americans* and all peoples. It is located along a river just as Kosciuszko's centuries old garden on a cliffside along the Hudson River at West Point. 

It serves as a living prayer for a healthy river and environment

as a tribute to the thousands of coal miners who perished in the mines** that operated nearby

and to a small community of their descendents, in a neighborhood where


they made where they stayed beautiful - may we all ......


 *it is the first public memorial in the world,  other than street names,  honoring Kosciuszko's Lithuanian ethnicity exemplified by the Lithuanian spelling of his name on the garden name plaque.
 **between 1910 and 1920 more Poles and Lithuanians died in the coal mines of Pennsylvania than any other immigrant ethnicities: 
3,177 & 1,199 respectively.
An Excel file at the following website lists all the recorded Lithuanian coal miners killed in the mines in the area from 1900-1920. The listing is by year : http://anthracitemuseum.org/library.htm



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