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- TITLE: Through a country not well settled : the "Albany Road" of 1752-1773 / Rensselaer-Taconic Land Conservancy, Rensselaer County Historical Society, Taconic Valley Historical Society
- AUTHORS: Gemmill, Hughes
Cox, Doris S.
Broderick, Warren F.
- PUBLISHED: Troy, N.Y. : Rensselaer Taconic Land Conservancy, 1999.
- SUBJECT:
Roads -- New York (State) -- History
Rensselaer County (N.Y.) -- History
Albany County (N.Y.) -- History
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 folder (various pagings): maps ; 29 cm.
- NOTES: Cover title. Researchers: Hughes Gemmill, Doris S. Cox, Warren F. Broderick.
- HOLDINGS: Go to the home page and do a search to locate this title, the libraries that has this title and its call number.
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- TITLE: Archives, 1927-2000
- AUTHORS: Rensselaer County Historical Society
- PUBLISHED:
- SUBJECT:
Rensselaer County (N.Y.) -- History -- Societies, etc.
Troy (N.Y.) -- History -- Societies, etc.
Troy (N.Y.) -- Historic districts
Photographs
Scrapbooks
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 65 boxes (65 cubic ft.)
- NOTES: Rensselaer County Historical Society is a not-for-profit educational organization that links local history and contemporary life while promoting broad public participation and interest in the history of Rensselaer County and its place in the region, state and nation. The Historical Society was founded in 1927 and operated until 1952 from space in the Hart Memorial Library. In 1952, the Cluett family gave the Historical Society its home, the Hart-Cluett Mansion, for use as a historic house museum in Troy, New York. Many years later the Joseph B. Carr Building, an adjacent townhouse, was purchased and is used for exhibitions, collections storage, public meeting room space and for the Dean P. Taylor Research Library. Both buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. RCHS carries out its mission with professional standards consistent with the public trust through the collection of historical materials of all formats, scholarly research, education at all levels of schools, advocacy for local history and preservation of its collections and buildings.
- NOTES: RCHS is accredited by the American Association of Museums. In 2000, RCHS had over 15,000 visitors touring the Hart-Cluett Mansion, school groups tour the museum weekly, hundreds of historians and genealogists use the Taylor Library annually and the staff work closely with town historians, historic preservationists and local historical societies throughout Rensselaer County. There are changing exhibitions about the county's history, regular lecture series as well as publications about topics related to the history of the county and a major annual event, the Holiday Greens Show, that attracts thousands of visitors each December.
- NOTES: The historical collections include fine and decorative arts, furniture, clothing, and textiles, over 3000 cubic feet of archival collections, approximately 2500 photographs and a large research library of books and pamphlets supporting the study of the history of Rensselaer County and the museum collections in RCHS.
- ABSTRACT: The archives of the RCHS document its history from its founding in 1927 to the present. Scrapbooks, 1927-1982, provide a detailed view of the activities and events in the history of RCHS and records of the Board of Trustees, from 1927 to the present, document policy-making and management decisions. There are financial records, membership records, records of library usage, news releases, flyers, brochures, programs published by RCHS, files of Capital Campaigns, I and II, annual collections of ephemera publications received by RCHS from 1992-1997 and other material. RCHS Preservation Committee files of Historic Building Survey data forms with photographs including negatives of building survey of parts of streets in downtown Troy, NY are another useful source.
- NOTES: Rensselaer County Historical Society, 59 Second St., Troy, NY 12180.
- HOLDINGS: Go to the home page and do a search to locate this title, the libraries that has this title and its call number.
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- TITLE: The marble house in Second Street : biography of a town house and its occupants 1825-2000 : a historic structure report / prepared by John G. Waite Associates ; with essays by Douglas G. Bucher, Stacy Pomeroy Draper and Walter Richard Wheeler
- AUTHORS: Bucher, Douglas G.
Draper, Stacy Pomeroy
Wheeler, Walter Richard
John G. Waite Associates, Architects
Rensselaer County Historical Society
- PUBLISHED: Troy, N.Y. : Rensselaer County Historical Society, 2000.
- SUBJECT:
Hart-Cluett Mansion (Troy, N.Y.)
Historic buildings -- New York (State) -- Troy
Troy (N.Y.) -- Buildings -- History
Troy (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 351 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- HOLDINGS: Go to the home page and do a search to locate this title, the libraries that has this title and its call number.
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- TITLE: Rensselaer County Sunday School Union/Troy Cemetery Association records, 1881-1891
- AUTHORS: Rensselaer County Sunday School Union/Troy Cemetery Association
- PUBLISHED:
- SUBJECT:
Missionaries
Troy, New York -- Religious activity
Troy, New York -- Cemeteries
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 vol.
- ABSTRACT: Bylaws, rules, and regulations of the Troy Cemetery Association; missionaries' reports to the Rensselaer County Sunday School Union, 1881, 1889, 1890, 1891.
- LOCATION: Rensselaer County Historical Society, 59 2nd Street, Troy, New York 12180.
- HOLDINGS: Go to the home page and do a search to locate this title, the libraries that has this title and its call number.
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- TITLE: Records, 1818-1947
- AUTHORS: Burden Iron Company
- PUBLISHED:
- SUBJECT:
Burden, Henry, 1791-1871
Burden family
Iron industry and trade -- New York (State) -- Troy
Horseshoes -- New York (State) -- Troy
Iron and steel workers -- New York (State) -- Troy
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 35 boxes (ca. 225 cubic ft.); 175 packages
- NOTES: In 1819, Henry Burden, born in Scotland, came to the United States and in 1822 he became Superintendent of the Troy Iron and Nail Factory. Burden, in addition to being a businessman, was an inventor of many important manufacturing tools, including a wrought iron nail and spike machine, a horseshoe nail machine, a rotary concentric machine for compressing balls of molten iron into blooms, and his most famous device, the horseshoe machine. This latter machine made possible the very rapid production of horseshoes. The Burden works was responsible for the manufacture of most of the millions of horseshoes used by the Union Army in the Civil War.
- NOTES: In 1851, Burden built his famous Burden Water Wheel, an overshot waterwheel, sixty feet high and 22 feet in diameter that produced 1,200 horsepower. About 1850 he became the owner of the company and in 1864 the firm of H. Burden & Sons was formed. In 1881, the company was incorporated with the name Burden Iron Company. In 1925 a new blast furnace was constructed to produce pig iron from ore mined in the Adirondack region of New York. The Burden family retained control of the firm until the late 1930s and Republic Steel Company purchased the firm during World War II. The company was later purchased by the Portec Company and is no longer in business. The company employed more than 1400 workers during its peak years, including many from immigrant Irish, Scotch, English and Welsh families.
- ABSTRACT: This is a merged collection from a smaller group of records in the Rensselaer County Historical Society and a larger accession added from the New York State Library in 2000. The merged collection has a very sketchy organization currently. The records consist primarily of accounting and financial records of the firm. Specific forms include cash books, day books, ledgers, sales books, cost books, wage and payroll books, furnace record books, puddlers production record books, blast furnace registers, horseshoe sales books, letterbooks, lettercopy books and scrapbooks. There are also records of Trustees meetings, 1881-1947, and Executive Committee, 1910-1936. There are few records from the later years of the firm.
- ABSTRACT: Discharge Book, 1881-1920, includes the names of those fired from the firm with the reasons for firing. The history of iron manufacturing as well as the laborers who worked in the industry in Troy is heavily documented in this collection.
- FINDING AIDS: Unpublished box listing available in library. Unpublished index of names of persons listed in Discharge Book is available in library.
- LOCATION: Rensselaer County Historical Society, 59 Second St., Troy, NY 12180.
- HOLDINGS: Go to the home page and do a search to locate this title, the libraries that has this title and its call number.
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- TITLE: Douglas Bilodeau, Collector. Moffitt Family Papers, 1870(ca.)-1910(ca.)
- AUTHORS: Douglas Bilodeau, Collector
- PUBLISHED:
- SUBJECT:
Family history
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 700 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Papers, primarily correspondence, of the Moffitt family of Rensselaer County; represented are Ora E. Moffitt, Charles J. Moffitt, Lucy E. Moffitt, and Mrs. John J. Moffitt. Also essays by Ora E. Moffitt.
- LOCATION: Rensselaer County Historical Society, 59 2nd Street, Troy, New York 12180
- HOLDINGS: Go to the home page and do a search to locate this title, the libraries that has this title and its call number.
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- TITLE: Genealogy Collection, 1825(ca.)-1960(ca.)
- AUTHORS:
- PUBLISHED:
- SUBJECT:
Rensselaer County, New York -- Genealogical records
Family history
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 200 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Genealogical materials relating to various Rensselaer County families include notes, charts, family trees, coats of arms, genealogies; also correspondence of Rensselaer County residents, c.1830-c.1940.
- LOCATION: Rensselaer County Historical Society, 59 2nd Street, Troy, New York 12180
- HOLDINGS: Go to the home page and do a search to locate this title, the libraries that has this title and its call number.
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- TITLE: Documents Collection, 1800(ca.)-1982
- AUTHORS:
- PUBLISHED:
- SUBJECT:
Land records, deeds and surveys
Troy, New York -- Local history
- Inventors and inventions Patents
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 600 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Certificates, awards, deeds, leases, indentures, insurance policies, wills, and miscellany of Troy and Rensselaer County residents. Also letters patent for stove designs, issued to residents of Troy including Ezra Ripley, George W. Ring, Joshua Crandall, Abram Harrey, George W. Chambers, Samuel Clark, Samuel Pierce, Jeremiah D. Green, James J. Dulley, N.S. Vedder, and Davis Hathaway.
- LOCATION: Rensselaer County Historical Society, 59 2nd Street, Troy, New York 12180
- HOLDINGS: Go to the home page and do a search to locate this title, the libraries that has this title and its call number.
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- TITLE: Map and Atlas Collection, 1767-1938
- AUTHORS:
- PUBLISHED:
- SUBJECT:
Rensselaer County, New York -- Maps
Rensselaer County, New York Atlases
Troy, New York Maps
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 20 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Subdivision, roadway, farm, and other survey maps of lands in Rensselaer County, primarily in and near Troy; Rensselaer County atlas, 1875.
- LOCATION: Rensselaer County Historical Society, 59 2nd Street, Troy, New York 12180
- HOLDINGS: Go to the home page and do a search to locate this title, the libraries that has this title and its call number.
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