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Don RittnerThe Saratogian |
While we all brag about how fast social media travels, it wasn’t long ago when the fastest communication were wires strewn across the county. There...
Years ago I found a theatrical script in the back of a cabinet at the Troy Public Library. It was written by the young upstart playwrights George S....
Next year marks the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. Many communities, towns, villages, and cities are putting together a committee or...
During the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt created his New Deal Program. It comprised a number of works projects to get people working...
Troy excelled in the production of cast iron stoves, bells, ironware, valves, iron & steel products, wire, nails, spikes, horseshoes, bloom & bar, and...
Troy excelled in the production of cast iron stoves, bells, ironware, valves, iron & steel products, wire, nails, spikes, horseshoes, bloom & bar, and...
During the period between 1790-1850, Troy grew in size from a mere few hundred (c. 400) to almost 30,000 people (28,785 in 1850). Over 400 patents...
Some of the finest sounding bells were cast in Troy and across the river at West Troy (Watervliet) during the 19th and 20th centuries. Thousands of...
Art is in the eye of the beholder. That’s actually BS. Art is the eye of the artist. What the artist sees in his/her mind may or may not represent...
This is the time most preservation organizations do their top ten endangered list. So here is mine: 1. The Burden Horseshoe Buildings This complex of...
Many do not realize that geological events of the past can play a crucial role in the success of a community. Take Troy for example. During the Gilded...
We use paper for communication (and occasionally making paper airplanes). However, there were many other uses put to the product when it was first...
When I was a young boy, I use to go to the Troy Public Library and look up names of famous people buried in Oakwood, Mt Ida, & New Mt Ida cemeteries....
Lead poisoning in old cities has been a continuing problem. Troy is no exception and has been in the news lately about spending money to get rid of...
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” When Dorothy uttered those words in the 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz,” she was...
August 24 is National Waffle Day. You can thank Cornelius Swartwout for inventing the modern version of the Waffle Iron. On August 24, 1869, he...
Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb? How many times have you heard this while growing up? The usual answer of course is “Grant!” But technically...
If you are a baby boomer you remember Elsie the Cow, the cartoon cow on the carton of Borden Milk (especially chocolate). I remember in elementary...
Manufacturing collars and cuffs NOTE: His manufacturing was located at 155 & 157 River Street, later used by Thompson Drugs and still standing....
In May of 1892, the New York Tribune published a list of all the millionaires in the United States: Four in Albany, two in Schenectady, and...
Most locals don’t know the 2000-foot strip of land on Spring Avenue between Locust Avenue and Linden Avenue is a park and the road is called the...
When I was young growing up in Troy my father was the platform manager for the Railway Express Agency. He picked up mailbags from the train at Union...
In 1869 it looked grim for the agricultural society and the county fair to continue. The Daily Times of October 3, 1869 made this observation: “For...
Troy and the Burg were at war! On Sept 17, 1864 the Troy Daily Whig published the following: “PECCAVI (I have sinned-DR). The editor of the Gazette...
Let’s continue our discussion about Troy’s natural history. One of the more popular past times is bird watching. A free app called Merlin...
Before Native Americans or Europeans settled in the Troy area, it was a river plain filled with oak and yellow (Pitch) pine, probably similar to...
The County Fair was having its problems in its early start but the citizens took it in stride. An earlier poem that appeared in the Daily Troy Budget...
The new mayor is looking for a new City Hall. We once had a real City Hall. Currently, we are outshined by the one in Schenectady, built in 1931 in...
In 1848 the Agricultural Society leased five acres for seven years and erected buildings and fences in Batestown beginning on the north side of...
As I wrote in my previous columns, Batestown, the area of Troy between Middleburgh Street and 101st Street, was sort of a wild west during the 19th...
If you were in Troy then you may be dead, or have had some form of cancer. Physicists experimenting with radioactivity at RPI noticed a sudden surge...
Back on January 16, 2001, 23 three years ago, I wrote the following column. It seems timely for all the Troy newbies. In my lonely pursuits to fight...
In my Jan. 7, 2003 column — that’s 21 years ago — I featured my Top Ten Endangered List for Troy. 1. Troy Bell Foundry, First and Adams 2....
When Abraham Lansing laid out his village in the 18th century he gave it a public square located in the center of the upcoming village of...
Chances are the answer is yes if you live in Troy. The NYS and National Register of Historic Places says, “Eligible properties must represent a...
There are too many X’s on buildings around Troy. They’ve been left to deteriorate by many absentee landlords and some locals who just don’t seem...
Batestown, Middleburgh Street to 101st Street, was mentioned by Horatio Gates Spafford in his 1824, Gazetteer of the State of New. “I suppose I must...
Prior to his death in 1809, at age 50, Jacob D. Vanderheyden laid out a roughly rectangular area of lots beginning on the North side of present North...
Many Trojans do not realize that the city of Troy was created from three Dutch farms, a couple of villages and hamlets, and a sort of no-man land...
Troy, New York is an honorary member of Baseball’s National League. Origins of the sport of baseball in the mid-1840s is given to the New York...
On April 27, 1860, a crowd assembled at the corner of State and First Streets at the Mutual Bank Building, later the National Bank Building. A young...
Thousands of inventions were patented from many a Trojan over the last two hundred years. Periodically I will give a sample of some of those...
Helen Ford was born Helen Isabel Barnett in Troy on June 6, 1894. Helen’s father was a manufacturer in Troy, and she was considered a musical...
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