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Underground Railroad Education Center in Albany gets $30K

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The Underground Railroad Education Center in Albany received $30,000 in funding on Monday to support its Museum Studies program. The program is designed to encourage high ...

Historical Albany landmark offers window into Underground Railroad

A plain brick building in the heart of Albany was also at the center of a freedom fight that still echoes through American ...
CBS 6

Albany Underground Railroad's after-school museum studies program facing federal cut

Albany — Albany's Underground Railroad Education Center is the latest local space for history and education to receive notice that their federal Institute of Museum and Library Services grant is being ...
Corvallis Gazette-Times

Albany railroad improvements to cost more than expected

Albany’s plan for new, more accessible railroad crossings are coming at a steeper price than anticipated. In September, City Council members in their role as the Albany Revitalization Agency approved ...
Times Union

A new Albany connection to the Underground Railroad

Scott Shane, author of “Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland.” This is page 1 of the Aug. 10, 1842 edition of Tocsin of Liberty where an article on the second ...
Times Union

Plans for expansive Underground Railroad interpretive center in Albany take shape

ALBANY - It’s currently an empty lot in Arbor Hill. And the main component is on a farm almost 60 miles away in rural Fort Plain. But eventually, these two components will merge into what its backers ...
CBS 6

Albany Underground Railroad center expansion awaits council vote

Man with 30+ arrests, 13 felonies labeled 'persistent offender' A man with more than 30 arrests and 13 felony convictions has been deemed a persistent felony offender by New York State. Multiple ...
Corvallis Gazette-Times

Albany to get new railroad crossings that will do this

Ten railroad crossings in Albany are getting upgrades after the Albany Revitalization Agency approved a $2.4 million budget for the changes. Some crossings will be improved, some will see new ones ...
WAMC

State funding announced for Albany’s Underground Railroad Education Center’s interpretive center

New York state lawmakers have announced $2 million for The Underground Railroad Education Center for its planned Interpretive Center in Albany. New York state lawmakers have announced $2 million for ...

Port of Albany gets new 'green' locomotive

Officials down at the port held a celebration last month with the arrival of locomotive #2502.
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Railroad crossing at 7th Avenue in Albany to close for repairs

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - Beginning Monday, March 18, 7th Avenue railroad crossing will be closed for repairs by Northfolk Southern. According to the City, the repairs will begin at 9 a.m. and will be ...