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Albany Bicentennial Tablets

Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 12 – Philip Livingston

April 6, 2021April 8, 2021 Carl Johnson

Continuing our series on the tablets placed around the city in commemoration of the bicentennial of Albany’s charter as a city, we have another one that has gone completely missing. […]

Fort Frederick Marker
Albany Bicentennial Tablets

Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 11 – Fort Frederick

March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 Carl Johnson

Continuing our series on the stories behind the 1886 bicentennial tablets commemorating important places in Albany, we have our first marker laid in a sidewalk, telling us of the nearby […]

Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 10 – To Come!

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 Carl Johnson

While we continue research on the fate of the 10th of our Albany Bicentennial Tablets, we are going to choose to skip over this one, for now. We’re posting this […]

Chuckrows Poultry
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Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 9 – First Presbyterian Church

March 15, 2021March 15, 2021 Carl Johnson

As we’re tracking the histories associated with the tablets that were installed in 1886 to commemorate the bicentennial of Albany’s charter as a city, we’ve been lucky so far in […]

Tablet 8 Site of Old St. Mary's
Albany Bicentennial Tablets

Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 8 – Old St. Mary’s Church

March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 Carl Johnson

Continuing with the eighth in our series covering the tablets that were placed around the city of Albany (and a little beyond) in honor of the bicentennial of the city’s […]

The tablet that actually appears on St. Peter's Church
Albany Bicentennial Tablets

Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 7 — First English Church

February 28, 2021February 28, 2021 Carl Johnson

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 English church in […]

Albany Bicentennial Tablets

Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 6 – First Lutheran Church

February 23, 2021February 22, 2021 Carl Johnson

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 […]

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Bones, Fire and a Weathercock

February 13, 2021February 13, 2021 Carl Johnson

Last time we wrote about the Albany Bicentennial Tablet commemorating the first church in Albany, and we noted that in addition to the two successive church structures that sat in […]

Albany Bicentennial Tablets

Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 5 – The Old Dutch Church

February 7, 2021April 8, 2021 Carl Johnson

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 […]

Kiliaen Van Rensselaer marker on Albany's City Hall
Albany Bicentennial Tablets

Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 4 — The First Patroon

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 Carl Johnson

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. […]

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