A reader who moved to Albany last summer had a question: How come the city’s Main Street is nowhere near the downtown business district, where Main Streets are typically found in American towns?
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Tags: Albany, Albany Regional Museum, Hackleman, Main Street, Monteith, Takenah
Tags: Albany, Albany Regional Museum, Hackleman, Main Street, Monteith, Takenah
Safe doors secured; still waiting for time capsule
The doors to the safe of Albany’s historic First National Bank have been saved as the building is being torn down. Now the big question is whether the cornerstone still contains the time capsule placed within it in 1912.
Tags: 1912, Albany Regional Museum, bank safe, demolition, downtown Albany, First National Bank, historic bank building, safe doors, time capsule