Will Become American Patrick Michael Whitney of 547 Fifth Avenue, Lansingburgh, a native of Ireland, who was a member of the Queen’s Own Irish Regiment and fought all through the Boer war and who carries the scars of two wounds… Continue Reading →
MANY PRETTY PLACES — In Spite of Drought or Frost Flowers Remain—The Powers Group of Gardens. Lansingburgh is noted for its beautiful lawns and well-kept gardens. They are the pride of its residents and it may be mentioned that there… Continue Reading →
The African-American community of Lansingburgh, though small, was apparently active: LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. From the Albany Evening Journal […] WEDNESDAY, Feb. 7. […] IN ASSEMBLY. […] PETITIONS PRESENTED AND REFERRED. […] of the colored citizens of… Continue Reading →
Lansingburgh, sadly did have some enslaved people living within its bounds in the Eighteenth Century. Records pertaining to any of Lansingburgh’s residents in its first few decades are limited, records pertaining to any of Lansingburgh’s African-American residents even more so…. Continue Reading →
Walter Bulkey had been active with the Hedding Methodist Church and Olivet Presbyterian Church, and in musical performances at the Powers Opera House (also called the Concert Hall) among other venues – as was his second wife and two of… Continue Reading →
A centennarian with ten years to spare, died at Lansingburgh yesterday. Susan Hornbeck, better known as “Aunt Susan,” was her name. She had attained the age of one hundred and ten years. The deceased was a colored woman—born a slave… Continue Reading →
Jerome Lee is one of the known African-American Civil War veterans with headstones in the Lansingburgh Village Burying Ground. There is some indication he might actually be buried in the Cypress Hills National Cemetery in Brooklyn, however. On the 1850… Continue Reading →
Peter F. Baltimore, a Trojan and not a Burgher, is interred in Oakwood Cemetery in Lansingburgh. In life he would have been known by the African-American population of Lansingburgh – the population of Lansingburgh generally, in all probability. His wife… Continue Reading →
For information about Charles Nalle, a “fugitive slave,” and his rescue in Troy involving Harriet Tubman, see e.g. “Walkabout: The Rescue of Charles Nalle — A Troy Story” by Suzanne Spellen (aka Montrose Morris). March 18, 2014. http://www.brownstoner.com/history/walkabout-the-rescue-of-charles-nalle-a-troy-story-part-one/ What follows… Continue Reading →
The African Celebration.—The colored people from Albany, Schenectady, Lansingburgh, Waterford, and other places in the neighborhood, besides some from towns along down the Hudson, assembled in this city on Monday last, to celebrate the second anniversary of the abolition of… Continue Reading →
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