The 40th of the Albany Bicentennial tablets, placed in 1886 in honor of the city's 1868 charter, commemorated Franklin Street, formerly Frelinghuysen. Franklin has lost some of its continuity, Rev. Frelinghuysen has been all but forgotten, and although the building it was placed on still stands, the bicentennial marker is gone.

https://hoxsie.org/2023/07/20/albany-bicentennial-tablet-no-40-franklin-street/

#Albany #AlbanyNY #history #LocalHistory #AlbanyHistory #AlbanyBicentennial #AlbanyBicentennialMarkers #histodons

Imagine my surprise to learn that it's #WorldBeaverDay – and I've written about beavers a lot:

Beaver oil, now with *no* beaver:
https://hoxsie.org/2019/07/23/dr-jones-beaver-oil-no-beaver-no-dr-jones/
The orphanage that beaver oil and root beer built:
https://hoxsie.org/2019/07/19/beaver-oil-root-beer-and-orphans/
#Albany was once a hotbed of beaver-related crime!
https://hoxsie.org/2012/06/26/where_theres_beaver_theres_beaver_crime/
And of course, the Beaver Kill:
https://hoxsie.org/2022/07/09/albany-bicentennial-tablet-no-23-beaver-kill/

#LocalHistory #History #histodons #AlbanyNY #AlbanyHistory #beaver #beavers

This week on my #LocalHistory blog, I uncovered nothing and solved no mystery. For some reason, the 1886 #AlbanyNY Bicentennial Committee chose to honor a street that was barely a street then, only an alley now. The #HistoricalMarker went missing more than a century ago, and I personally know every person who knows where Dean Street is.

https://hoxsie.org/2023/03/30/albany-bicentennial-tablet-no-34-dean-street/

#Albany #AlbanyHistory #HistoricalMarkers

Working with old maps, there is always some kind of beauty. This is from an 1857 Sprague & Co./M. Dripps map of #AlbanyNY. Those trees!

#art #MapArt #OldMaps #MapIllustrations #Trees #Albany #LocalHistory #AlbanyHistory

There are SO many snippets in my #localhistory folder for things I want to research. For example: did the E.J. Larrabee biscuit bakery in #Albany, NY invent animal crackers (or, as they called them, "menagerie biscuits")? And could I possibly find a copy of their illustrated biscuit dictionary?

Formerly the Albany Aerated Bread Company, Larrabee burned rather spectacularly in 1887, and it's not clear whether they reopened after that.

#history #albanyny #albanyhistory #animalcrackers

The #historicalmarker celebrating publisher Joel Munsell has been missing for more than a century. He did the most to record and preserve the history of the city of #Albany, and we commemorate him with: exactly nothing.

Without his work, particularly "The Annals of Albany," vast amounts of minutiae would have been lost.

The full story is at the link below:

https://hoxsie.org/2022/11/25/albany-bicentennial-tablet-no-27-joel-munsell/

#AlbanyNY #AlbanyHistory #LocalHistory #historicalmarkers #history

Another local #history distraction – a news item about boys throwing rocks at a hot air balloon in #Albany NY in 1819. The balloonist was a French Revolution exile (Albany had others) who was also one of the area's earliest piano makers. I've written a lot about Albany's history as a piano-making city (all long gone, alas), but I never ran across the name of Joseph Peloubet before. Soooo, now there's more research to try to do on Monsieur Peloubet.

#localhistory #albanyhistory #albanyny

Point King Lighthouse, Albany, Western Australia. Built in 1857 and in use until 1911. The picture shows the ruins of the lighthouse keeper’s cottage; the llighthouse itself was an adjacent wooden tower with an oil-fired light. The tower was 5m high and the light was visible 19km away.

#history #heritage #archaeology #lighthouse #maritime #australia #albanyhistory #albany

In 1886, #Albany NY celebrated the bicentennial of its charter with a series of #historicalmarkers, many of which still exist. One that does not marked the house where "Yankee Doodle" purportedly was written – and that may have been the only correct fact on the marker.

The house was nearly sold off brick by brick at the turn of the last century.

Full story at https://hoxsie.org/2022/11/10/albany-bicentennial-tablet-no-26-crailo/

#history #localhistory #albanyhistory