Author: W. Earl WellerPublisher:
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Category : Schenectady (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Tales of Old Dorp
Author: W. Earl WellerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Schenectady (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Schenectady's Stockade
Author: Don RittnerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738563121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Located in upstate New York on the western banks of the Mohawk River, Schenectadys stockade is recognized as the first historic district of New York State and has been protected by strict zoning laws since the 1960s. As one of the oldest European-settled areas in the Unites States, the stockade contains the highest concentration of historic buildings in the country. During the early 19th century, the stockade had become a center for business, but a major fire in 1819 swept most of it away. Remarkably, more than 40 buildings have remained a part of the landscape for more than two centuries. As a result, a mix of architecture from 17th-century Dutch to modern exists within the four blocks that make up the stockade. Through photographs and maps, Schenectadys Stockade: New Yorks First Historic District tells the story of one of Americas earliest communities.
Historic Theaters of New York's Capital District
Author: John A. MillerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467137464
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Experience the architecture and colorful history of the Historic Theaters of New York's Capital District as author John A. Miller charts the entertaining history. For generations, residents of New York's Capital District have flocked to the region's numerous theaters. The history behind the venues is often more compelling than the shows presented in them. John Wilkes Booth brushed with death on stage while he and Abraham Lincoln were visiting Albany. The first exhibition of broadcast television was shown at Proctor's Theater in Schenectady, although the invention ironically contributed to the downfall of theaters across the nation. A fired manager of the Green Street Theatre seized control of the theater with a group of armed men, but Albany police stormed the building and the former manager regained control.
History of the Mohawk Valley, Gateway to the West, 1614-1925
Author: Nelson GreenePublisher:
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Category : Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 978
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Tales of Old Schenectady
Author: Larry HartPublisher:
ISBN: 9780932035042
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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Author: Historic Tales from the Adirondack Almanack
Author: John WarrenPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625842570
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Northern New Yorks Adirondack Park is a naturalists wonderland of high peaks, plunging chasms, pristine waters, and stunning vistas. In this collection of columns from the popular series the Adirondack Almanack, author John Warren reveals another side of this charming land. Stories of bank robberies, the Ku Klux Klan, gambling, buried treasure, rattlesnakes, and earthquakes abound. Showing careful research and a panache for storytelling, Warren takes the mountain path less traveled, where locals and visitors alike will be surprised by the hidden gems of the Adirondacks.
George Washington's Hair
Author: Keith BeutlerPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813946514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Mostly hidden from public view, like an embarrassing family secret, scores of putative locks of George Washington’s hair are held, more than two centuries after his death, in the collections of America’s historical societies, public and academic archives, and museums. Excavating the origins of these bodily artifacts, Keith Beutler uncovers a forgotten strand of early American memory practices and emerging patriotic identity. Between 1790 and 1840, popular memory took a turn toward the physical, as exemplified by the craze for collecting locks of Washington’s hair. These new, sensory views of memory enabled African American Revolutionary War veterans, women, evangelicals, and other politically marginalized groups to enter the public square as both conveyors of these material relics of the Revolution and living relics themselves. George Washington’s Hair introduces us to a taxidermist who sought to stuff Benjamin Franklin’s body, an African American storyteller brandishing a lock of Washington’s hair, an evangelical preacher burned in effigy, and a schoolmistress who politicized patriotic memory by privileging women as its primary bearers. As Beutler recounts in vivid prose, these and other ordinary Americans successfully enlisted memory practices rooted in the physical to demand a place in the body politic, powerfully contributing to antebellum political democratization.
The Mohawk
Author: Codman HislopPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815624721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Hislop writes living history. Father Jogues is there, as are Sir William Johnson and Molly Brant, Nicholas Herkimer, DeWitt Clinton, Eliphalet Nott, the Remingtons, Charles Steinmetz, and a host of others. Fur trading, land grabbing, Dutch, Palatines, Yankees, the Battle of Oriskany, the Erie Canal, the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, General Electric are all part of the story of The Mohawk. Hislop's presentation of this unique region is both informative and compelling.
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