Comments on: Stumbling into history in South Troy, NY

By: HERB

HERB — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:58:15 +0000

THE OLD MILL HAS BEEN CALLED A BROWN FIELD. THERE HAS BEEN CLEANUP ALONG THE RIVER AND IN THE SITE BY COMPANIES THAT WOULD’NT REVEAL THIER INTENTUION OR FINDINGS EVEN AFTER I INFORMED THEM OF THE RIGHT TO KNOW LAW.

By: …My heart’s in Accra » For the agrarian insane

…My heart’s in Accra » For the agrarian insane — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:59:15 +0000

[...] We’ve got all that out in western New England and eastern New York… but we also have spooky abandoned mills, labyrinths, witches, unexpected sculpture gardens, and in the backyard of a neighbor in [...]

By: Christia

Christia — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:06:34 +0000

This exhibit from the folks at the Center for Land Use Interpretation is at the Rensselaer County Historical Society in Troy. I saw it in NYC last June; it's not huge, but I thought it was pretty nifty.

By: Jason K

Jason K — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:02:13 +0000

Terrific story about milling in South Troy! I’m curious about the web-map black-out – it simply HAS to be something other than arson. If arson were reason to black out buildings on GoogleMaps, half of Boston would be included. (Jamaica Plain, my new neighborhood, seems to have a particularly nasty arson problem – and by this logic, nearly every black church in America might justify such ‘protection.’)
I don’t have a better answer except a conspiratorial hunch that there is either toxic pollution or formerly secret gov’t stuff located there.
Either way, it seems odd to me to black-out a sight on the web but leave it so accessible to a guy and his truck… Hmm..