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From: "Bill Brizzell" <>
Subject: Re: [NYALBANY] Harmony Mills Records
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 21:20:07 -0400
References: <3D02ABCA.F293ACCC@nycap.rr.com>


I second the idea to contact Riverspark. They should know as much as
anyone. And if anyone does contact them, please post the results to the
list. I am not very optimistic about it, but perhaps they do have
something. I had ancestors who worked in the mills from the 1840s for at
least a few decades.

Bill Brizzell

----- Original Message -----
From: "James E Kaufman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [NYALBANY] Harmony Mills Records


> There is a book "Worker City, Company Town" by Daniel J. Walkowitz
> published by University of Illinois Press that discusses the Cohoes
> Textile industry and the Iron Workers of Troy NY. I think I may have
> posted this a year or so ago when similar questions came up but I am
> ashamed to say that I still intend to read this book or have it read to
> me as procrastination runs in my family.
>
> I am not sure if your specific family members are mentioned within its
> pages but it may give you an insight into the two cities at the time
> your family members were alive as well as the industries of Iron and
> Cotton. I have many reasons for wanting to know as my grandfather George
> Andrew Kaufman was a 12 year old Iron Worker in Troy around 1898 who
> commuted from Albany.
>
> The City of Cohoes still holds some of the original buildings that were
> the Hamony Mills although a recent fire destroyed most of them.
>
> Also try:
>
> History of Cohoes, NY-1876 thru Cornell University
> http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/bookm.html
>
> Some time ago I visited the Cohoes visitor center during a Historical
> event in honor of May Day, the real labor day. I don't know if this
> number is still the same but it is worth the quarter. Try to contact:
>
> Riverspark Cohoes Visitor Center
> 58 Remsen St.
> Cohoes NY 12047
> 518 237-7999
>
> I hope your searches produce needed information
>
> jim
>
> ______________________________

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