Lincoln in Albany

"I hold myself without mock modesty, the humblest of all individuals that have ever been elevated to the Presidency....You have generously tendered me the united support of the great Empire State." - Abraham Lincoln speaking to the New York Legislature ...

The Erie Canal / Albany Basin

The Erie Canal.

This site marks the east

end of the canal, opened in

1825. It carried products

and people between the

Hudson River and Lake Erie

Albany Basin.

For nearly 100 years boats

entered the Erie Canal at

nearby Lock 1, bringing

work, tradition and fame

to the State’s ...

Albany

1887

On Jan. 11, 1887, the Decatur Land Improvement and Furnace Company, Inc. was formed under the leadership E. C. Gordon, C.C. Harris and W.W. Littlejohn. With a capital investment of $7,500.000, the company purchased 5600 acres of land, including 100 ...

Albany Purchase

The NE corner of the land deeded the Proprietors by the Six Nations in great council at Albany July 6, 1754, was 1 mile north of Penns Creek. It ran thence "North of the West as far as your Province ...

Albany Pump Station

The original Quackenbush pumping sta.

engines pumped water from

Hudson River to reservoirs until

Dec. 1932. In Charge of Construction:

I.C. Chesbrough. Engineer; J.H. Mars,

Engineer For Pump Engine Constr.

1874

Designated as an Albany Historic Site

by

Common Council Jan. 15, 1981

Marker is on Montgomery Street ...

Albany / Enterprise Academy

Albany (Side A)

The village of Albany was established in 1838 as a market center for the surrounding agricultural area, which saw its first white settlement in the early years of the nineteenth century. Education was always a major concern of ...

Albany Path Ska-Nek-Ta-De

Trail Through Open Pines

Wagon, Stagecoach and

Military Road. Now State

St. and Route 5 to Albany

Marker is on State Street (New York Route 5) just south of Stanford Ave., on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Albany’s First Brick House

Built of brick hauled from Macon by wagon, this house was completed in 1860 by Congressman William E. (Tete) Smith for his bride, Caroline Williams Smith. The interior trim and mahogany stair rail came from New York; the furnishings were ...