Albany (NY) History
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Everything Old Albany On Flickr

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 For an extensive collection of Albany photos - ranging from long-demolished buildings to vintage advertisements (and everything in betwee...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Henry Johnson To Receive Medal of Honor

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The long effort to posthumously award Henry Johnson the Medal of Honor for his service in World War I has been successful.  Article from A...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Seriously Endangered Church of The Holy Innocents

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  In 1850, Albany lumber baron William H. DeWitt built a memorial to four of his children who died quite young.  In addition to a splen...
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Thursday, March 12, 2015

The Gravestone of Jeremiah Field - A Mystery Solved

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An historic gravestone, long described as discarded, in fact rests in the Church Grounds lot of the Albany Rural Cemetery. Jeremiah Field ...
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

The Step Stone of The Church

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Volume One of Joel Munsell's Annals of Albany contains a description of an old stone which marked the location of the First Dutch Ch...
Friday, December 5, 2014

The Virginia Bowers Memorial Sculpture

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This wonderful sculpture made from original trolley tracks removed from Delaware Avenue honors the late Virginia Bowers, Albany historian....
Saturday, November 8, 2014

An Uncommon Thrill - When The Hilton Sisters Came To Albany

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  Violet and Daisy Hilton  In 1934, Daisy and Violet Hilton brought their vaudeville act to Albany. Audiences at the Capitol Theater...
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Paula Lemire
A lifelong resident of Albany, N.Y. who loves history and writing, I'm also the site admin for Broadway actor Hugh Panaro. Currently working on a history of the Albany Rural Cemetery. Oh, and a Whovian.
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