Washington's Headquarters in Newburgh: the farmhouse where he shut down the Newburgh Conspiracy, refused a crown, and created the Badge of Military Merit.
Washington used this fieldstone farmhouse as his headquarters longer than any other post of the Revolutionary War, sixteen months from April 1782 until the army disbanded in 1783. Built in 1750 by Jonathan Hasbrouck, this is where Washington put down the Newburgh Conspiracy, a threatened officers' revolt over unpaid wages. He also rejected a proposal that he take a crown, and created the Badge of Military Merit, the purple cloth insignia that became the direct ancestor of the Purple Heart. New York bought the property in 1850, making it the first publicly owned historic site in the country.
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