City Historian
Contact
Dr. Paul Loatman
City Historian
36 North Main St
Mechanicville,
NY
12118
Ph: (518) 664-9884
Hours
Monday - Friday
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Dr. Paul Loatman is a noted historian and City resident. Dr. Loatman specializes in the history of the area and has researched and written a series of articles about the history of Mechanicville. Click any of the links below to get acquainted with the history of our city.
"With All Due Respect - Remembering Our Heroes" July 12, 2012
"Remembering The Union's First Hero - Colonel Elmer Ellsworth"May 26, 2011
"Patriotism Is Not Dead"May 10, 2011
Ellsworth Remembered April 29, 2011
Ellsworth Was The First... April 20, 2011
Ellsworth Featured in National Portrait Gallery April 13,2011
The Italian "Feste" Part 2 August 10, 2010
The Italian "Feste" Part 1August 3, 2010
And I Think to Myself…What a Wonderful World February 13, 2010
The End of Our Beginning June 20, 2009
Ye Olde Fire Laddies July 13, 2008
Band of Brothers February 21, 2008 (originally published July 6, 2003)
Mechanicville Thanksgiving December 28, 2007
Veteran's Monument Dating - October 19, 2007
Tracking History July 4, 2007
Who's Famous Now?May 3, 2007
Matchless Mechanicville May 9, 2007
Mechanicville's Ethnic HeritageJune 2006
Mechanicville Heritage - A Thumbnail Sketch May 29, 2006
Whose Bell Tolls For Whom?May 21, 2002
Harnessing The Hudson December 31, 2002
History of Catholicism in Mechanicville
West Nile? Meet "The Mother of all Viruses"November 7, 2001
Hold That Line
Why I Chose Mechanicville
What's In A Name
Caption Lemuel Roberts Forgotten Hero?
Why Do They Call It "The Dutch Gap?"
It Was Déjà vu All Over Again
History of the Railroads in Mechanicville
Melting Pot or Mixing Pot? Mechanicville's Ethnic Heritage
Follow The Yellow Brick Road
Oh, Those Good Old Days
Italian Celebration Plans Set
Contidini in The New World Paese
Good Bridges Make Good Neighbors
How Soon They Forget! Mechanicville's 'Unsung' Star
Knitting the Past Together
How the Irish Discovered Mechanicville, if not America
Wondering About the Irish
With Apologies to the Schaghticokes
You Can Count On It
Remembering Mississippi Jenkins
"Ocolika" - Riverside
"The Greatest Generation" Lives Here Too!
President Visits
History of the paper industry in Mechanicville
Cyclone-Hurricane Visits this City
Uncovering The Past
The Name Game
Seeing the Light
" ... And Then There Was One"
Who Killed Capt Bratt
The Fort Family Photographs 1897-1900
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