NEW YORK – The state of New York is on its birthday, celebrating 234 years to the day it became one of the original thirteen colonies to join the United States.
The governor of the state, Kathy Hochul, remembered the date on Tuesday with a jubilant message on her Twitter account.
“Happy birthday, New York! You may be 234 years old, but the best years are yet to come,” the Democrat said.
On July 26, 1788, the New York State Convention met at Poughkeepsie, a city in the state that lies in the Hudson River Valley region midway between the core of the New York metropolitan area and Albany, and he voted to ratify the Constitution, making New York the eleventh of the original thirteen colonies to join the United States.
One of the first statewide conservation efforts in the United States took place in New York in 1879. according to the Library of Congress.
New York is known for its beauty with state parks, rivers, nature and the home of the capital of the world – the Big Apple.
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