My latest #localHistory post looks at my hometown's biggest park, Collins Park, long a center of community along the #MohawkRiver. As some old pictures show, it was sometimes hard to tell apart from the river during floods. I also found a surprise (short-lived) race track once on the grounds of the park.
https://hoxsie.org/2026/03/16/collins-park-and-lakeview-park/
This is an old #rppc #postcard that I bought at a shop in #Schenectady a couple of years back. Fascinated with it but never sure just what to do with it. It's a real photo postcard showing "Dick on Mohawk River at Schenectady in 1917 while working in G.E."
General Electric's main plant was very close to the #MohawkRiver, and I can attest that even decades later, the river was subject to some mighty freezes.
On my #Localhistory blog, I explore some of the history of the 1730 building that houses the cutest little library in the world (in my estimation), and one of the places that fundamentally shaped me. Here's the story of Scotia, NY's Abraham Glen house:
https://hoxsie.org/2026/02/18/the-abraham-glen-house-the-scotia-public-library/
#ScotiaNY #scotia #schenectady #histodons #libraries #PublicLibraries
My great great aunt's house in West Glenville, NY, where I spent many summer days in the 1960s and '70s. While it had electricity, it did not have indoor plumbing. We had to draw water from the pump in this picture – drawn through shale, it was quite tasty (though the rag on the spout is to catch rust from the mechanism). After she died in 1985, the house was modernized and is not recognizable anymore.
#OldPhotos #OldPhotographs #colorslide #OldHouse #GlenvilleNY #Schenectady
Downtown #Schenectady NY, probably autumn 1977. A dreary day in what was then a dreary place, even though I loved it. The Proctor's Theatre on the left has survived and expanded, the old local department store hung on into the early '90s, everything else has changed. The buildings are mostly still there, and renovated. Looking at this I mostly remember how bad the air quality was.
#OldPhotos #OldPhotographs #FilmPhotography #UpstateNY #UpstateNewYork #BWPhoto
1811 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
"I shall[...]facilitate as many good people into the Province as I possibly can" - A #Loyalist recruits people in #Schenectady, N.Y. to move to Upper Canada
https://www.notlmuseum.ca/research/download/81/3/47
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#UpperCanada #ImmigrationHistory
See also: Upper Canada - War of 1812
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/upper-canada
Carl Johnson
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