Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 12 – Philip Livingston
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. […]
Author: Carl Johnson
Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 11 – Fort Frederick
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!
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 […]
Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 9 – First Presbyterian Church
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 […]
Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 8 – Old St. Mary’s Church
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 […]
Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 7 — First English 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 English church in […]
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 […]
Bones, Fire and a Weathercock
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 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. […]