Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 32 – Washington Avenue
The last several tablets placed by the Albany Bi-centennial Committee in 1886 were simple commemorations of several streets – and not always major ones. Some still exist, but this one […]
The last several tablets placed by the Albany Bi-centennial Committee in 1886 were simple commemorations of several streets – and not always major ones. Some still exist, but this one […]
The Albany Bicentennial Committee chose to honor Academy Park with a bicentennial plaque – interesting in that it is the only one that celebrates a public space (not counting particular […]
Another Albany bicentennial marker, and another one that long ago disappeared without a trace. So did whatever building it was originally installed on, probably another building after that, and, eventually, […]
Today we have another Albany Bicentennial tablet that survived despite major construction at the area of its original placement more than a century ago. The Bicentennial Committee titled it “The […]
Continuing our series on the tablets installed at important sites around the city of Albany in honor of the bicentennial of its charter, in 1886: Tablet No. 28 — North-West […]
Of all the Albany Bicentennial Tablets that have disappeared, perhaps the most ironic and unjust is the tablet celebrating printer and publisher Joel Munsell – no one has done more […]
Once again, one of Albany’s Bicentennial markers is missing – and this one wasn’t even in Albany. The Bicentennial Committee listed the following text on Tablet No. 26: Tablet No. […]
Continuing our slow march through the tablets placed in honor of the bicentennial of Albany’s charter as a city, we have a marker that denoted the site of what was […]
Continuing our review – our very slow review – of the historical markers that were placed around Albany in honor of the bicentennial of the city’s charter in 1886. City Gate […]
On December 23, 1823, the Troy Sentinel made cultural history, as the first newspaper to publish Clement Moore’s Christmas poem, “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” now perhaps better known as […]