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NEW YORK Two hundred and eighty tons of American history were on the move Saturday in Harlem.
The home of Alexander Hamilton, who help found Paterson, America's first industrial city, and later died in a duel in Weehawken, rolled inch by inch down a Harlem hillside to its new location overlooking a park.
"This was the only home Hamilton ever owned," said Steve Laise, a National Park Service official dressed in a vest, tie and pants typical of the 1800s. "It represented the consummation of Hamilton's lifelong dream a successful social position for a man who came to the American colonies as a penniless 17-year-old born out of wedlock in the West Indies."
But the brilliant, charismatic Hamilton, who became a lawyer, helped pen the Constitution, conceived the country's banking system and served as its first Treasury secretary eventually moved to New York, where he founded the New York Post and the Bank of New York.
Earlier this month, Hamilton's house squeezed between a church and an apartment building was hoisted 40 feet into the air, with steel beams...