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Albany Bicentennial Tablets

Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 1: Fort Orange

January 2, 2021March 3, 2021 Carl Johnson

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 […]

Schenectady County Beers Map 1876
Schenectady

O’Neill, the Schenectady Swindler

February 17, 2020February 18, 2020 Carl Johnson

For a while now we’ve been interested in the story of Emmett O’Neill, the Schenectady Swindler. We hadn’t heard of him before he popped up along with some other research […]

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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, […]

Albert Livingston Stevens in Ford
Schenectady

A.L. Stevens, Schenectady’s Rooming House Keeper and Armless Driver

June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 Carl Johnson

Paging through an old Schenectady Directory, an oddly worded series of advertisements led us to an interesting story – the story of the armless man who owned a group of […]

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