News

The receipts of Lumber for 1861 were down 128,000,000 feet less than in the previous year, but Shingles, Square Timber and Stave are about the same. The following table exhibits the receipts at ...
As 1861 came to a close, the citizens of Albany reflected on a year that had witnessed the political ascension of Abraham Lincoln, the eruption of the Civil War and the defeat of the once ...
IMPORTANT FROM ALBANY.; THE NEW LEVY OF VOLUNTEERS. Share full article. Aug. 1, 1861. Credit... The New York Times Archives. ... 1861, Page 1 Buy Reprints.
Richard Fritz Klein of Springfield, Ill., portrays Abraham Lincoln during a reenactment of Lincoln’s 1861 train stop in Albany at the New York State Museum’s Huxley Theater Friday.
ALBANY, N. Y. (WRGB) - It's an incredible moment in Albany history, and it happened 158 years ago Monday. It was on Feb. 18, 1861 that President Abraham Lincoln and the man who would assassinate ...
ALBANY NY (WRGB) - As the United State reexamines its past and current race relation, the removal of statues has been a discussion taking place across the country, and now, Albany is getting in on ...
ALBANY — Abraham Lincoln visited Albany just once, in 1861, but his connection was complicated and ran deep. "Lincoln was not very popular in Albany County," said Harold Holzer, who has written ...
As New Yorkers worry about crime and sky-high living costs, Albany is moving to stop a different threat: supposedly poisonous pans. State Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal’s bill to end the sale of ...
Albany’s getting set to sock New York with yet MORE pro-criminal laws that’ll make us even LESS safe By . Ray Tierney. Published March 28, 2025, 6:44 p.m. ET.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – The Union’s first black hero of the Civil War wasn’t one of the African-American soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, famously depicted in the 1989 film ...
Abraham Lincoln is coming to Albany again — after 150 years. In February 1861, after his election to the presidency the previous November, Abraham Lincoln traveled by train from his home in ...