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Scotia Plans Insane Fourth

July 2, 2020July 1, 2020 Carl Johnson

From 1912, we ran across this article impugning the sanity of our original hometown and have just been waiting for it to be seasonal and/or timely again. So here we […]

Scotia High School, later junior high school, later seventh grade
Scotia

The High Schools of Scotia

March 18, 2019April 2, 2020 Carl Johnson

A while back in a Facebook group, someone commented on this old postcard of the original Scotia High School, which opened in 1905 on First Street, just about across from […]

Glenville

Sacandaga Road and the Battle of Beukendaal

October 25, 2018November 7, 2020 Carl Johnson

Where else do you get a triple threat, two NYS Education Department historical markers and a monumental plaque, and with it the story of an ambush and a corpse tethered […]

Robert Allen Deitcher marker Scotia DSC_2576
Scotia

Scotia’s Most Famous Composer

October 5, 2018October 5, 2018 Carl Johnson

One would think that if a composer of incredibly famous songs had once lived just a few blocks from one’s childhood home, one would have heard about it, no? But […]

The Science Fiction Writer Next Door: P. Schuyler Miller

February 20, 2018March 21, 2018 Carl Johnson

Growing up, my family lived next to a four-unit apartment house in Scotia, one of those places that was oddly transient on a street of homes where people generally lived […]

The Little Village That Could

August 8, 2016August 7, 2016 Carl Johnson

Hoxsie is nothing but rail talk these days, and combine that with news about the old hometown and it’s not possible to skip this one. What is now the Village […]

The Great Western Gateway Exposition

December 11, 2014October 20, 2015 Carl Johnson

The grand opening of the Great Western Gateway Bridge, a decade in the planning, was a very big deal indeed. The bridge itself opened in December of 1925, but of […]

Construction of the Great Western Gateway Bridge

December 9, 2014 Carl Johnson

“Successful Methods,” a civil engineering magazine from around about a century ago, took the time in November 1920 to detail how work on the Great Western Gateway Bridge was progressing: […]

The Great Western Gateway Bridge: The Life of the Citizen is at Stake

December 3, 2014October 20, 2015 Carl Johnson

At the 1915 hearing on the need to build the Great Western Gateway Bridge between Schenectady and Scotia (and beyond), the Honorable Fred W. Cameron, Chairman of the Saratoga Reservation […]

The Great Western Gateway: There Will Be Speechifying

December 2, 2014October 20, 2015 Carl Johnson

As Schenectady grew into an industrial powerhouse and State Street grew into a thriving commercial district, and as automobiles began to become an important form of transportation, it became clear […]

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