Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 6 – First Lutheran Church
We were doing so well up till now. The first five of the (arbitrarily numbered) plaques put up in celebration of the bicentennial of Albany’s charter in 1886 have all […]
Albany Bicentennial Tablets
Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 5 – The Old Dutch Church
Continuing our series on the bronze markers that were placed by the Albany Bicentennial Committee in 1886 – the words below were approved to commemorate the first building constructed for […]
Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 4 — The First Patroon
Continuing our series on the bronze markers that were placed by the Albany Bicentennial Committee in 1886 – the words below were approved to commemorate the first Patroon: Tablet No. […]
Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 3 – Broadway
Continuing our series on the bronze markers that were placed by the Albany Bicentennial Committee in 1886. The Committee on Monumenting and Decoration chose to commemorate Broadway, then as now […]
Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 2 – Municipal
Continuing our series on the bronze markers that were placed by the Albany Bicentennial Committee in 1886. This was the tablet that was described by the Committee on Monumenting and […]
Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 1: Fort Orange
Our last entry talked about the Albany Bicentennial celebration and the fate of a marker meant to commemorate the Black citizens of Albany that may never have gotten to its […]