Rensselaer Park Fairs Start in Lansingburgh History
The 19th century Rensselaer Park fairs grew from the Agricultural Society origins in Bates Town to Lansingburgh site. The Rensselaer Park Association formed in 1867 planned roads, track, grandstand, and race facilities with tickets and corporate directors. The park hosted picnics, baseball, circuses, and large crowds before a New Park opened in the early 1900s, lasting until 1918.
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Lansingburgh
Rensselaer County L
Agricultural Society
Rensselaer Park
Rensselaer County Agricultural Society
Batestown
Banner County
Troy Road
Rensselaer Park Association
John L. Blanchard
C. S. MacArthur
J. B. Wilkinson
A. A. Peebles
H. L. Shields
Gates H. Barnard
Wiliam F. Sage
M. M. Wilson
Levi Smith
Gilbert Utter
Mr. Utter
New Park
Buffalo Bill
Metropolitan Opera Company
New York
Anna Noyes
Prudence Field
Pleasantdale
Park Lake
Sullivan
Young’s Grove
Young's Grove
Lansingburgh Fourth Ward
Powers Park Memorial Ties to Lansingburgh Founders
The article recalls Powers Park as a memorial to William Powers and Deborah Ball Powers, early Lansingburgh developers. It covers William Powers’s oilcloth factory, Deborah Powers’s management, the park’s layout, historical events hosted there, and its eventual sale and transformation into a residential area.
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Powers Park
Lansingburgh
William Powers
Groton
N. H
Deborah Ball Powers
Hebron
N.H
William
Second Avenue
Powers
Otlcloth
Jonathan Whipple
Albert E
Nathaniel B. Powers
Haskell
Melville Links to Lansingburgh Roots and Early Works
The article traces Herman Melville family ties in Lansingburgh with the Gansevoort and Van Schaick clans, notes his schooldays at Lansingburgh Academy in 1838, early writings in 1839, and sea voyages inspiring Redburn Typee and Omoo. It also mentions his marriage to Elizabeth Shaw in Boston on August 4, 1847.
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Melville
Herman Melville
Maria Melville
Herman
Lansingburgh
Gansevoort
Lansing
Peebles
van Schaick
Lansingburgh Academy
Ebenezer D. Maltbie
Mary Eleanor Parmelee
Tennyson
Democratic Press
Lansingburgh Advertiser
England
Redburn
Greenbush and Schodack Academy
Brunswick
South Seas
Aschunet
Typee
Omoo
Nukaheva
Tahiti
Sandwich Islands
Boston
Elizabeth Shaw
New York City
Cent Reward Offered For Boy
Lansingburgh Gazette reports a one cent reward for Nathan Babcock an apprentice boy aged 12 to 14 who ran away on the 24th inst. He is described as stout with a felt hat a drab surtout a close-bodied coat a woolen jacket with blue fore-parts a checked flannel shirt butternut overalls boots and socks. Reward paid and harboring forbidden. Nathan Tefft.
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Lansingburgh
Nathan Babcock
Lavender acquire exclusive rights to Trumps Patent Corpse Preserver
The Lansingburgh Gazette reports J. B. and S. Lavender purchased the exclusive right to use and sell G. A. Trumps' Patent Corpse Preserver. The device keeps the deceased longer after death, delaying burial, and the Lavenders are praised for introducing the invention and gaining rapid local patronage.
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Lansingburgh
J. B. & S. Lavender
G. A. Trumps
Messers. Lavender’s
Will's Practical Philosophy of Social Life advertised
Publisher Penniman and Bliss in Lansingburgh announces the new book Will's Practical Philosophy of Social Life priced at 2 dollars and, forthcoming Erskine's Gospel Sonnets at 350 pages 12 mo one dollar on fine paper and 75 cents on common paper. Also offers trunks and paper hangings. Dated Lansingburgh October 29, 1805.
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Lansingburgh
Penniman and Bliss
Will
Erskine
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John L. Flagg
Samuel O. Gleason
H. B. Nims
John F. Porter
Elijah House
Robert Green
Charles L. MacArthur
George Vail
William Powers Lansingburgh
108Th Street
110Th Street
Sixth Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Troy Times
New Rensselaer Park
Old Rensselaer Park
B&m
Ken Goewey
Dodge Boys
North
Troy
Castleton
Fifth Ave
N. Troy
Gretchen Memorials Designers & Builders of
8Th Ave
114Th ST
Riverview Funeral Home
Second Ave
5Th Ave
Joodecurgug
South Troy
Ferry St
North Troy
Cohoes
Ontario St
Nathan Tefft
Carrier
Howie’s Jewelers
Charles H. Mason & Son
109Th ST. and
3Rd Ave
Troy, N. Y
State Farm Insurance CO
112Th ST
Jos. F. Corrigan
Dominick A. Lanni
Covatta Drugs Inc
Northern Drive
Frank P. McDonald
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