The Process

Build a Power Point presentation about Van Cortlandt Manor answering the questions below.  Each question should be a different page in your presentation.

1. Where is the Van Cortlandt Manor?  See if you can find it on this map?

2. When was the mansion built? Read about the birth of the manor.

3. Who lived in the Van Cortlandt Manor? Read "The Manor Household in a New Nation."

4. What happened there during the American Revolution?  Read the Revolutionary War Years.

5. Which person in the Van Cortlandt family served in the Revolutionary War?  Find some information about Philip Van Cortlandt in the archives of American Memory.