#scotiany — Public Fediverse posts

My latest #localHistory post looks at my hometown's biggest park, Collins Park, long a center of community along the #MohawkRiver. As some old pictures show, it was sometimes hard to tell apart from the river during floods. I also found a surprise (short-lived) race track once on the grounds of the park.

https://hoxsie.org/2026/03/16/collins-park-and-lakeview-park/

#ScotiaNY #Schenectady #histodons

Man, this place has *everything*

#historicalMaps #OldMaps #SanbornMaps #ScotiaNY #LocalHistory

On my #Localhistory blog, I explore some of the history of the 1730 building that houses the cutest little library in the world (in my estimation), and one of the places that fundamentally shaped me. Here's the story of Scotia, NY's Abraham Glen house:

https://hoxsie.org/2026/02/18/the-abraham-glen-house-the-scotia-public-library/

#ScotiaNY #scotia #schenectady #histodons #libraries #PublicLibraries

My latest #localhistory post covered an #IceCream factory that ran for decades in an old school building in my hometown. They used some really progressive/aggressive marketing for the time, and featured flavors like "peacharoon" and "lalla rookh." If you guessed the three flavors in their "mystery brick," you won a year's supply. (And the winners were published in the paper, so their friends knew who had free ice cream.)

#localhistory #histodons #schenectady #scotiaNY

https://hoxsie.org/2026/01/05/colonial-ice-cream/

My latest #LocalHistory post has more than a tiny element of #PersonalHistory, as it's about my elementary #school (and its predecessor of the same name). I was lucky enough to find some great #ClassPhotos and shots of the #playground, where I spent thousands of hours of my youth.
#histodons #upstateNY #UpstateNewYork #Schenectady #ScotiaNY

https://hoxsie.org/2025/12/10/scotias-mohawk-schools/

What if Scotia, NY's Glen-Sanders Mansion had no Glens, no Sanderses? That's what happened in 1963, when Mrs. Pearl Sanders sold the historic house dating to 1713. For years, it looked as if the mansion could be lost at any time.
In my latest post, I take a look at the history of the mansion – the very symbol of my hometown – from 1963 until today, when its fate is again uncertain.

#localhistory #histodons #scotiaNY #schenectady #SchenectadyHistory #ScotiaHistory

https://hoxsie.org/.../the-glen-sanders-mansion-after-1963/