The Capital Region & Hudson Valley
Observer ChronicleNews from Albany to Poughkeepsie, and the towns along the river.
Built by vaudeville impresario F.F. Proctor and rescued by residents in the 1970s for a dollar, Proctors is in its 100th anniversary season. A look at the theater’s history and its centennial year.
Emma Willard opened the Troy Female Seminary in 1821, teaching young women subjects such as math and science that were then reserved for men.
During the War of 1812, barrels of beef stamped “U.S.” from Samuel Wilson’s Troy business gave the country its nickname.
Thomas Edison moved his machine works to Schenectady in 1886. The plant became the base of General Electric and shaped the city for a century.
Born enslaved in Ulster County around 1797, Isabella Baumfree walked to freedom and won a court case to free her son before becoming Sojourner Truth.