Links to area websites of interest

The Sand Lake Historical Society

Listed here are a number of links to locally oriented history web sites. All links below will open in a new window.

Town of Sand Lake

• History
• Discover Sand Lake NY

Rensselaer County:

• Hart Cluett Museum / Historic Rensselaer County (formerly Rensselaer County Historical Society)
  • Local Historians
• Historical Societies / Town History sites:
  • Berlin (Town Historian/History)
  • Brunswick Historical Society
  • The Historical Society of Esquatak (Nassau and Schodack)
  • Grafton Historical Society
  • Greenbush Historical Society (East Greenbush and North Greenbush)
  • The Hoosick Township Historical Society
  • Knickerbocker Historical Society (Schaghticoke)
  • Lansingburgh Historical Society
  • Pittstown Historical Society
  • Poestenkill Historical Society
  • City of Rensselaer, City Historian
  • Stephentown Historical Society
  • Troy (city government website; see also Hart Cluett Museum)
    
    
• Historic Eastfield Village
• Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway
• Burden Lake Association
• Burden Lake Conservation Association
• Glass Lake (Facebook only)
• Glass Lake Preservation Corporation
• Troy & New England Railway (the "trolley": 1895-1925; from Gino's Trolley Page)
• Rensselaer Plateau Alliance
• Office of (NY) State History
• Underground Railroad Education Center

Other links of interest:

• arts letters & numbers
• Sand Lake Center for the Arts, home of Circle Theatre Players, Squire James Coffeehouse Music, gallery and more
  
• SKY HIGH Adventure Center's Community Center
• Young's Pharmacy and General Store (See our "feature" on their historic building)
  
• On 2/9/2010, Melody Howarth presented her work on doll restoration and professional porcelain repair. Check out Mel’s Belles; Melody also is Nassau Town Historian!
  
  
• Capital District Genealogical Society

Community links:

• Sand Lake Town Library
  • Community Calendar
• West Sand Lake Fire Department
• Averill Park-Sand Lake Fire Department
• Taborton Fire Department
• Sand Lake Ambulance
• Averill Park Central School District
• Kiwanis Club of Sand Lake
• Sand Lake Business Association
• Sand Lake Garden Club
  

Sand Lake (NY) History group

Who Are These People?

Do you recognize anyone in the "Averill Park baseball team" photo above, where and/or when it was taken? (Click on the photo for a larger version.)

Do you know anyone in the "Averill Park community photo" above, where it was taken, or anything about the photo, from the early 1900s? (Click on the photo for a larger version.)

Our "Sand Lake (NY) History Facebook group is intended to help ask or answer questions like these!

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