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The Leatherman Grave and Marker

Ossining, NY

The mysterious wanderer known as the Leatherman repeatedly walked a roughly 365-mile circuit through New York and Connecticut in the 1880s while wearing a handmade suit of heavy leather. He died in 1889 and is buried in Ossining, where a Legends & Lore marker records one of New York's strangest real-life folk figures.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: wgpfoundation.org/historic-markers/the-leatherman/

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