As part of New York’s bicentennial celebration in 1976, local women (including many KHS members) met every week at the Van Cortlandt House Museum to sew squares depicting events and places in Bronx History. The quilt was one piece in a larger project conceived by the New York City Bicentennial Corporation to commemorate and continue the American tradition of community-based quilt making in different neighborhoods of New York City. Some of the quilters had decades of experience while others had never sewn before. In June of 1976, the quilt was put on display at the World Trade Center for a special bicentennial exhibition. There was so much interest in the project that the second Bronx history quilt was made in the years that followed.
From the July 19, 1984 Issue of the Riverdale Press:
The quilts are on display now at Van Cortlandt House Museum alongside “Tibbetts Tapestry,” a new community-based sewing project that depicts Kingsbridge as a greener place with Tibbetts Brook daylighted and flowing through the neighborhood: