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  This historic church, right around the corner from Washington's Headquarters, which is on Liberty Street, Newburgh, N.Y., continues to define Newburgh as ground zero for so much of American History.
  
  This particular AME ZION Church was one the earliest African Methodist Episcopal Zion Churches. The founding AME Zion Church was located in New York, and its first Bishop was James Varick, a son of Newburgh, born of a European descent father and an African descent, slave mother.
  
  Varick was instrumental in shaping the opinions of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglas, who would later visit Newburgh's AME Zion Church in order to address the congregants.
  
  The plaque in front of the Church commemorates Douglas' visit and notes he was not only an abolitionist, but a consultant to President Abraham Lincoln.
  
  This as well as the contributions of many of the congregants to the history and development of the city of Newburgh make this both a religious and historically important landmark in Newburgh.
  
  If you head west towards Liberty Street and walk down so that you are just opposite Washington's Headquarters, you will stand in front of Prof. Dubois Brown Alsdorf beautiful building where his music and dance academy ran as an important Newburgh institution for many years.
  
  He was a leading congregant of AME Zion Church, contributed towards its beautification and upkeep, and he (son of a freed slave) and his sons were important fixtures in Newburgh for nearly a century, educating hundreds of school children in the musical arts.

  Added November 24, 2016 by barbara lee