#albanyhistory — Public Fediverse posts

#AlbanyNY served up about 47 #historicalmarkers in 1886 to celebrate the city charter's bicentennial. Shocking/not shocking that only one never made it to its intended destination – the one honoring Black citizens.

The full story is here:

https://hoxsie.org/2020/10/01/what-happened-to-the-burdett-coutts-marker/

#BlackHistoryMonth #AlbanyHistory #BlackHistory #Albany #UpstateNY #UpstateNewYork

This 1910 #LewisWickesHine photo of #Albany #newsboys has been popping up, stripped of all information. I took a deeper dive to learn about boys who were out selling newspapers on the city streets at 10 o'clock at night. Each one saw trouble with the law, starting right around when this was taken. For some, that trouble continued their entire lives.

#localHistory #histodons #AlbanyNY #AlbanyHistory #UpstateNewYork #UpstateNY #ChildLabor

https://hoxsie.org/2025/01/29/albany-newsboys-1910/

Working on a fun #LocalHistory piece, and it turns out that I've written about "Lefty Pierce" before without knowing it – under his real name, he's featured in a fairly famous photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine of a group of #Albany newsboys. More to come. #AlbanyNY #UpstateNY #UpstateNewYork #UpstateHistory #AlbanyHistory #histodons

I'm trying to get my little #LocalHistory blog, the confusingly named Hoxsie, moving along at a somewhat more regular (if not blistering) pace. My last big project took three years, so I'm returning to the days of just posting little snippets in hopes of getting some ideas out of my folder. I started with a brief piece about "the human semaphore of the traffic squad" in #AlbanyNY nearly a century ago:

https://hoxsie.org/2024/10/14/a-safe-sane-way/

#Albany #AlbanyHistory #OldNewspapers

From the days when meat arrived in a somewhat fresher (in fact, entirely more alive) condition – #AlbanyNY residents were relieved that the cattle yard where livestock traveling by train regularly spent the overnight hours would be eliminated. From the 1919 Albany (NY) Argus.

#Albany #AlbanyHistory #LocalHistory #NewspaperHeadlines #OldNewspapers

A now forgotten early #aviator and #vaudeville mind reader, Hope Eden, created an absolute sensation when she took a whirlwind shopping expedition in #Albany in 1919 – Taylor Swift might not get more attention.

Eden may have been the first entertainer to regularly travel from gig to gig in her own airplane – at a time when landings were made in fields.

#LocalHistory #Histodons #AlbanyNY #AlbanyHistory #AviationHistory

https://hoxsie.org/2024/04/30/hope-eden-to-do-her-shopping-in-albany-stores/

Albany Bicentennial Tablet 46 – a #marker honoring "Jewish Congregations," which I suppose was originally placed on this structure when it was Temple Beth Emeth. Haven't found the marker, but I did try to give a capsule history of the major #Jewish congregations in #Albany, including Albany's role in reform Judaism as the home of Rabbi Isaac Wise.

https://hoxsie.org/2024/01/17/albany-bicentennial-tablet-no-46-jewish-congregations/

#AlbanyNY #AlbanyHistory #LocalHistory #histodons #historicalmarker #historicalmarkers #historicmarker #historicmarkers

We're in the bonus round – the #Albany Bicentennial Markers that somehow were not recorded by the Bicentennial Committee in 1886. This one marks Madison Avenue and makes note of one of its former names, but doesn't provide more than that. Hoxsie will at least tell you who Lydius was.

Follow the link:
https://hoxsie.org/2023/12/05/albany-bicentennial-tablet-no-43-madison-avenue/

#LocalHistory #Histodons #AlbanyHistory #AlbanyNY #historicalmarker #historicalmarkers #historicmarker #historicmarkers

Albany, NY was essentially founded on the beaver trade – for fur, not as "medicine." Long after the beavers were gone, a local #SnakeOil salesman got into a tussle with the State of New York and ended up getting his beaver seized (and don't think I haven't considered "Beaver Seizure" as a band name).

So here's the story of Dr. Jones' Beaver Oil:
https://hoxsie.org/2019/07/23/dr-jones-beaver-oil-no-beaver-no-dr-jones/

#Albany #AlbanyNY #AlbanyHistory #PatentMedicine #CureAll #Beaver #Beavers

The 40th of the Albany Bicentennial tablets, placed in 1886 in honor of the city's 1686 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

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