I often write about the #LocalHistory of #AlbanyNY – I've been focused on telling the stories of a series of #markers put up during the city's charter #bicentennial.
The latest entry tells some stories of one of #Albany's shortest streets, Norton Street, where #AaronBurr once practiced law.

https://hoxsie.org/2023/07/10/albany-bicentennial-tablet-no-39-norton-street/

#history #HistoricalMarker #HistoricalMarkers #histodons

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

The latest in my series on the city of Albany, NY's bicentennial markers, placed in 1886. This one refers to three events in Academy Park – one that probably never happened, one that inaugurated an observatory that still hadn't been built, and one that raised significant money for Civil War medical aid.

Full story at https://hoxsie.org/2023/02/11/albany-bicentennial-tablet-no-31-academy-park/

#albany #AlbanyNY #AlbanyBicentennial #LocalHistory #HistoricalMarkers #HistoricalMarker

50° 3.172′ N, 19° 56.89′ E. #NeverForget #Memorial #Photography #histodon #historicalmarker

In 1886, Albany, NY placed a series of #historicalmarkers around the city, denoting important places and people in its #history. I've been slowly telling the stories of those markers. Today's story covers a still extant marker that commemorates the city's old city hall, its first mayor Pieter Schuyler, its southeast gate, and the Congress of 1754, where #BenjaminFranklin offered the Albany Plan of Union.

https://hoxsie.org/2022/12/14/albany-bicentennial-tablet-no-29-the-south-east-gate/

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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/

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Anyone know anything about the Shawneetown marker in Idabel, OK?

According to Waymarking.com it should be right next to the Miller Courthouse marker on W Lincoln Rd., but according to Google Street View, the marker is gone.

Included are photos from Waymarking.com and Google Street View.

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Does anyone know the location of the Pecan Point marker?

Its said to be on State Highway 87/U.S. 259 near the Red River. (South of Idabel OK)

Reference: https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=PE006

This is the only picture I've found of it, and I can't find it on Google Street View. GSV shows Bridge construction going on at the Red river.

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