Rockin on the River

Schedule a tour for a crash course in area history.

A very large cemetery with many monuments, mausoleums, and statues. Among the interred is Samuel Wilson, considered a possible namesake of the "Uncle Sam" character.

literally means "foaming or puffing stream" in Dutch, powered mills in the gorge for more than 300 years. The waterfall is located in a peaceful, secluded location in the middle of the city of Troy. The gorge can be viewed from a visitors' lot off Linden Avenue, between Pawling and Spring Avenues.

The poem A Visit from St. Nicolas that begins with "T'was the night before Christmas" was first published in The Troy Sentinel, a local newspaper, on December 23, 1823 and is memorialized in this marker.

The Sanctuary for Independent Media is a telecommunications production facility dedicated to community media arts, located in an historic former church. The Sanctuary hosts screening, production and performance facilities, training in media production and a meeting space for artists, activists and independent media makers of all kinds. The diverse films, talks, showcases and music events in 2010 included a talk by bestselling "Blackwater" investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill; music from emerging Afropop star Bassekou Kouyate and his band from Mali; a multimedia presentation by author Scott Christianson on Harriet Tubman's heroic 1860 slave rescue in Troy; filmmaker Alex Rivera screening his acclaimed sci-fi adventure "Sleep Dealer"; and the weekend Bike!Bike! Northeast celebration of bicycle culture.