City of Albany

admin September 10, 2011 1 min read

The Main Web Page of the city. You can use the links below or go to the topic listed after the link. To find the topic from the main page, go to the left side of the main page and find the heading Fast Finder. Use the down arrow next to Select…… to find the topic listed below.
An official History of the city.
Other links to historical information about the city:
- 1720 Albany County Census Index
- Capital District Civil War Roundtable
- Colonial Albany Social History Project This is an ambitious project to put the history of Colonial Albany online.
- Historic Albany This group is interested in the preservation and restoration of historic buildings.
- Historic Cherry Hill This historic house was “Built as a farmhouse on 900 acres in the same year the United States Constitution was drafted, Cherry Hill today sits…in the South End of Albany, New York.”
- The New Netherland Project was established under the sponsorship of the New York State Library and the Holland Society of New York. Its primary objective is to complete the transcription, translation, and publication of all Dutch documents in New York repositories relating to the seventeenth – century colony of New Netherland.
The Web Page for the City Library. The main branch in particular, on Washington Avenue, has an excellent information department with very helpful staff.