OUR HORSE RAILROADS—INTERESTING FACTS. In the Lansingburgh Gazette of yesterday, appeared as exceedingly interesting and exhaustive article, in reference to that origin, management, and importance of the Troy and Lansingburgh and Troy and Cohoes Horse Railroads. We copy the following… Continue Reading →
Jacob P. Wright is something of a mystery. Through his self-publishing A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Lansingburgh, N. Y., from 1841 to 1868 https://archive.org/details/historyofamezion00wrig it’s possible to know something about him through his own words and… Continue Reading →
A BIG THING.—A correspondent of an Albany paper proposes that Albany, Troy, Lansingburgh, Waterford, West Troy, Greenbush, Kenwood, and Normanskill, be consolidated into one “GREAT CITY AND COUNTY.” This would be a very large thing, open to some objections, perhaps,… Continue Reading →
TRUSTEE’S PROCEEDINGS. Regular Meeting, May 25, 1868. Present—Wm. Allin, Jr., President, and Trustees Spicer, Weaver, Lansing, Eddy and Higgins. Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. […] Trustee Spicer moved that the following ordinance be accepted after being… Continue Reading →
Lansingburgh in Summer.—The Future. The number who seek our village to spend the Summer months is annually increasing, and we are happy to say that the accommodations for visitors keep equal pace with the increases. Our hotels were never before… Continue Reading →
GRAND CELEBRATION At Batestown ON THE FOURTH Parade and Excursion of the BATESTOWN GUARDS. Dinner at Wier’s.—The Toasts.—Letters from Distinguished Men, &c., &c., &c. The Batestown Guards will have a high old Celebration on the Fourth. Ten bushels of pea-nuts… Continue Reading →
Card from Captain Dink. DRILL ROOM OF THE GUARDS. Batestown, July 8, ’68. To the Editor of Lansingburgh Gazette: The officers and men of my command desire me to return you thanks for the faithful accounts you have given in… Continue Reading →
☞TROY AND LANSINGBURGH—A COMPARISON.—Some people believe that “comparisons are odious.” To their attention we commend the following excessively modest paragraph: “A movement is made to secure a new charter for Troy. The charter must necessarily define the boundaries of the… Continue Reading →
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