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Medina sandstone, as it was called, would eventually be most heavily quarried around Albion, and shipped elsewhere in the state via the canal to be used later in the construction of the state capitol in Albany and many so-called brownstones in New York City. It saw its first use in the future district around 1840, when it was used to build the ...
The Orleans County Courthouse Historic District is one of two located in downtown Albion, New York, United States.Centered on Courthouse Square, it includes many significant buildings in the village, such as its post office and churches from seven different denominations, one of which is the tallest structure in the county.
Albion is a village in Orleans County, New York, United States. The population was 5,637 as of the 2020 census, down 419 from the 2010 census. The population was 5,637 as of the 2020 census, down 419 from the 2010 census.
Most of that acreage is accounted for by Mt. Albion Cemetery, the largest listing in the county at 70 acres (28 ha). The Cobblestone Historic District, with three buildings on two discontiguous plots totaling three-quarters of an acre (3,000 m 2), is the smallest district and the smallest National Historic Landmark District in New York.
—Pseudo-Aristotle, On the Universe, 393b Pliny the Elder, in the fourth book of his Natural History likewise calls Great Britain Albion. He begins his chapter on the British Isles as follows, after describing the Rhine delta: Ex adverso huius situs Britannia insula clara Graecis nostrisque monimentis inter septentrionem et occidentem iacet, Germaniae, Galliae, Hispaniae, multo maximis ...
The district consists of three buildings — a church, its parsonage and a former school building — in two separate parcels totaling 0.9 acres (3,600 m 2).Both are located along the north side of the highway just east of its junction with NY 98, three miles (4.8 km) north of Albion, the Orleans County seat, in the Town of Gaines.
Albion (/ ˈ æ l. b iː. ə n /) is a town in Orleans County, New York, United States. The population was 7,639 at the 2020 census. [ 3 ] The town was named after a village in the town.
During the summer of 1837, Albion's first post office was established. William Abbott became the first Postmaster, and William Worden became the first mail carrier. He delivered mail between Oswego, Utica and Albion. A building was erected in 1852 at Albion Center (on a corner of Tinker Tavern Road and County Route 22).