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Rensselaer County Potpourri This page was last updated 9 October 2008. |
This page is intended to be a "catch-all" for information that doesn't really fit in any specific category, such as newspaper articles, anecdotes, family stories or any tidbits of information, visual or written, that may help a researcher place his or her family in Rensselaer County at a given time. If you'd like to contribute, send e-mail with your photo etc., or a URL where the information can be seen, to Lin Van Buren.
Letters
| ABBOTT letter - from Margaret Abbott of Troy to her cousin Julia Moran in Ireland |
| DERICK family letters |
| PIERCE letter - from a Troy man in the California Gold Rush of 1849 to his wife |
Miscellaneous
| Emma Willard School, list of students from the 1931 yearbook |
| School District No. 5, East Poestenkill, 1895-1896 |
Photographs
| See our Photo Gallery. |
Websites about Rensselaer County
| The Covered Bridges of New York: Buskirk's Bridge |
| The 55 Waterfalls of Rensselaer County, NY |
| The Belted Kingfisher - this beautiful
bird lives on Papscanee Island in the Hudson River off the town of East Greenbush |
| Photos of the Troy waterfront today |
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Lin Van Buren