Albany County

Albany County (/ΛˆΙ”ΛlbΙ™niː/ awl-bΙ™-nee) is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, and is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area. The name is from the title of the Duke of York and Albany, who became James II of England (James VII of Scotland). As of the 2010 census, the population was 304,204.[1] As originally established, Albany County had an indefinite amount of land, but has only 530 square miles (1,400 km2) as of March 3, 1888. The county seat is Albany, the state capital.

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Preston Hollow

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Preston-Potter Hollow is small hamlet south-western Albany County in the Town of Rensselaerville with a population of 366. Probably most famous for the trout fishing on the Catskill Creek, it's a pretty outlaying area in a deep hollow nested between the mountains, with lots of good ol' country boys living in the hills and hollows surrounding it.

Beaver Kill in Albany

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Today if you went Downtown you would be hard pressed to find much of the Beaver Kill or Beaver Creek. Most of it is buried in the Big C Pipe, although they are proposing to daylight part of it in Lincoln Park during the coming years. Probably the best place to see it would be in what is now Washington Park Lake.

Data Source: 1866 Beers Map of Albany from the New York Public Library, georefrenced, traced and overlaid on a contemporary aerial photo and LIDAR hillshade.

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