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Hawkins’ Rocking-Chair Velocipede

☞ VELOCOPEDISTICAL. — Mr. J. E. Hawkins, of Lansingburgh, inventor of the new butter cracker machine, has invented a velocipede, for which he has just secured a patent. —A Mr. Manchester will open a velocipede rink at Rand’s Concert Hall,… Continue Reading →

Frisby Way (abt 1785-1872) State Convention of Colored Citizens activist & A. M. E. Zion Church of Lansingburgh co-founder

LANSINGBURGH.—Yesterday morning Frisby Way, a colored man aged ninety years, and one of the first settlers of the village, expired after a short illness. Mr. Way has been a hard working and industrious man. Notwithstanding his advanced age he worked… Continue Reading →

Proposed retrocession of Batestown (November 15, 1869)

—Some years since [July 1, 1836] the portion of the village of Lansingburgh lying adjacent to the city [i.e. Batestown] was set off from the ‘burgh and annexed to Troy. Last Winter we proposed to take all the villagers into… Continue Reading →

“Lansingburgh as Seen by a Stranger” (1869)

Lansingburgh as Seen by a Stranger. [Correspondence of the Lockport Journal.] LANSINGBURGH, March 25, 1869. Adjoining the city of Troy on the north is the village of Lansingburgh, containing some seven thousand inhabitants. The people are largely engaged in brush… Continue Reading →

“Incendiary Fires in Lansingburgh” (1869)

☞ INCENDIARY FIRES IN LANSINGBURGH—DARING ATTEMPT TO BURN THE VILLAGE—NINE ATTEMPTS AT INCENDIARISM.—Last evening at about a quarter to twelve o’clock, the barns and sheds of Chas. Baxter, in Baxterville, on the outskirts of the Burgh, were discovered to be… Continue Reading →

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