Mary Ellen Johnson

While thousands of drivers now pass through the hamlet of Guilderland daily, four centuries ago wilderness covered the area.

Navigating Route 146 from the Route 20-Hartman Corners intersection to Altamont takes minutes, depending on traffic. You are the latest of the peoples who have traveled in the same direction.

In the Town Historian’s mail recently was a photograph of G. S. Vroman’s Altamont Livery Stable, sent by the Madrid, New York Town Historian.

This is the first of a two-part series on the Army depot in Guilderland Center, site of the current Northeastern Industrial Park.

GUILDERLAND — The Bohl site has been the scene of commercial enterprises since the early Western Turnpike days when Batterman’s Tavern served stagecoach travelers until modern times.

Countless vehicles pass through Guilderland Center daily, unlike centuries ago when small numbers of Native Americans hunted and fished in this area for the abundant wildlife that abounded along th

The United States’ declaration of war on April 6, 1917 forced the American people to respond to the crisis of World War I.

V-E Day, V-J Day, the war was over, the boys were returning home! And the babies started coming, and coming — the Baby Boom had begun.

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