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Thomas H. Sands Pennington, Black Pharmacist

August 17, 2020August 18, 2020 Carl Johnson

I started out to write a little bit about Dr. Thomas Elkins, one of the most remarkable and accomplished African American residents of Albany. I was challenged by two things: […]

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Beaver Oil, Root Beer, and Orphans

July 19, 2019July 19, 2019 Carl Johnson

Looking up these old local stories is nearly always a venture down a rabbit hole, and it’s usually a question of where to stop. One little detail catches the eye, […]

Jerome Hartman Sadie Koninsky Uncle Sam's Boys
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Troy’s Musical Koninsky Family

July 2, 2018July 2, 2018 Carl Johnson

Andrew Mace hepped us to one of those fascinating facts that we can’t believe we didn’t know. One of the Troy Facebook groups posted the cover of sheet music for […]

Ford to Build Big Plant at Once 6-19-1920
Green Island

Mr. Ford Builds His Dream Hydro Plant

May 15, 2018May 13, 2018 Carl Johnson

Way back when, Green Island was an island, separated from the rest of what is now Colonie by the Mohawk River (a separation reiterated by the Erie Canal), and separated […]

Tompkins Knitting Machines

February 19, 2018February 18, 2018 Carl Johnson

This is the Tompkins Upright Rotary Knitting Machine, one of a number of inventions of Troy’s Clark Tompkins. Incredibly, his business is still in business, still making knitting machines – […]

If Crackers Counted, Troy Would Be Lansingburgh

January 22, 2018 Carl Johnson

Like a lot of cities in the 1800s, Troy grew through expansion, annexing neighboring areas whose names are often forgotten. But Troy’s growth wasn’t a foregone conclusion, and there was […]

R.S.V.P. to V.R.S.P.; or, the Young Lady Didn’t Invite Him to Skate

January 17, 2018January 17, 2018 Carl Johnson

In 1870, the St. Lawrence Republican (of Ogdensburg) ran a story headed “R.S.V.P., or the Van Rensselaer Skating Park,” and promised that “The following ‘local story,’ taken from the Albany […]

Curious Accident

January 10, 2018January 8, 2018 Carl Johnson

A singular accident happened on the Hudson River Railroad on Friday evening. The Express train which left this city on the above evening for New York, had not proceeded more […]

The Remarkable Darkness of Sept. 6, 1881

January 8, 2018January 8, 2018 Carl Johnson

The remarkable darkness of Tuesday morning, September 6th, 1881, was phenomenal. A heavy yellowish mist obscured objects a hundred feet distant from persons out of doors, and dimmed to a […]

The Marshall Sanitarium

January 5, 2018January 4, 2018 Carl Johnson

Again, poking around an old Sampson, Davenport map of Troy, say 1873 (they didn’t change much from year to year, and as we noted yesterday, sometimes included buildings that were […]

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