Turns out Rensselaer County, NY is interesting.
TourPods has 8 narrated audio stories about Rensselaer County — the hidden history, true crime, food legends, and local lore of its streets, told like a podcast about wherever you're standing.
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
The Room That Made Musicians Lean In
How a bank hall became Troy’s unlikely temple of sound.
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Kate Mullany’s Clean Fight
How Troy laundresses turned punishing work into a labor victory.
Burden Iron Works Museum
How Troy Learned to Make Horseshoes by the Millions
Henry Burden’s machines helped turn Troy into a horseshoe-making giant.
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How Troy’s Meat Barrels Made Uncle Sam
A Troy meat packer enters American legend through wartime barrels marked U.S.
Grafton Lakes State Park
The Lakes That Stayed After the Ice
How retreating glaciers shaped Grafton’s beloved lakes and ponds.
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
The Bank Upstairs That Learned to Sing
How a bank built a hall above itself and got extraordinary sound.
Hart-Cluett Mansion
Ambition in Brick at the Hart-Cluett Mansion
A Troy townhouse that still holds the shape of early ambition.
Cherry Plain State Park
Where the Uplands Keep Their Cool
A forested New York park shaped by upland water, woods, and old ice.
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