Don Rittner
Another removal of Albany history hits the road By Don Rittner on December 6, 2013 at 2:07 PM
by Don Rittner
My first history/archeology project back in 1972 was relocating and preserving the Kings’s Highway, the first road between the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys that connected Albany (Fort Orange) to Skenectada (Schenectady). I took up the unfinished work of Schenectady City Historian William Efner who began this project back in the 1930s. Fortunately I was able to save a mile long section of the original sandy road when Mayor Corning purchased the first city Pine Bush Preserve back in the late 70s at my request.
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