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Albany

noun

State capital of New York; located in eastern New York State on the west bank of the Hudson river. Synonym: capital of New York.

A town in southwest Georgia; processing center for peanuts and pecans.

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"Albany" Quotes from Famous Books

... achievement was that of Captain Stewart Dean, who very shortly afterward had his fling at the China trade in an eighty-ton sloop built at Albany. He was a stout-hearted old privateersman of the Revolution whom nothing could dismay, and in this tiny Experiment of his he won merited fame as one of the American pioneers of blue water. Fifteen men and boys sailed ...

— The Old Merchant Marine - A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors, Volume 36 in - the Chronicles Of America Series • Ralph D. Paine

... Erie Canal extended from Albany to Lake Erie and was constructed chiefly because DeWitt Clinton worked for it with might and main from ...

— Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat • Ross Kay

... colonies growing up by the side of the Atlantic and the Iroquois, those dangerous foes, already irritated by the founder of Quebec. These Indians were able to buy firearms and ammunition from the Dutch traders at Fort Orange, now Albany, on the beautiful river which had been discovered by Hudson in 1609. From their warlike qualities and their strong natural position between the Hudson and Niagara rivers, they had now become most important factors in the early development of the French and English colonies, and it is consequently ...

— Canada • J. G. Bourinot

... going on to the great Connecticut. Along the stream was the ancient highway, or lowway, where in days before the railway came the stage-coach and the big transport-wagons used to sway and rattle along on their adventurous voyage from the gate of the Sea at Boston to the gate of the West at Albany. ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... Garrison, "perhaps he told you where it was deposited or who had drawn it up, or you may know his lawyer in Albany. ...

— A Husband by Proxy • Jack Steele

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