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Graffiti defaces Lincoln site

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From Times Wire Reports

Swastikas and a racial epithet were spray-painted on a historic train depot where Abraham Lincoln once spoke. The graffiti was discovered days before the dedication of a Lincoln statue.

Police in Peekskill, 40 miles north of New York City, did not immediately declare the graffiti a hate crime.

The Lincoln Depot is under renovation, funded with state grants that also are being used to build a visitor center at the site along the Hudson River. In 1861, Lincoln delivered an address at the station on his trip from Illinois to his inauguration.

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