We need to work on the grownups. Don Rittner's history column appears Tuesdays in The Record. The remains of a house believed to date back to some of Albany's earliest Dutch settlers has been uncovered at a downtown construction site. Archaeologists say they've also found an 18th-century tannery complex and brickworks at the future site of a parking garage for a new state building. They believe the house located near Interstate 787 dates back to the 1630s, when Albany was a growing Dutch settlement.
Archaeologists say the house is a rare find, since it was located outside the original city walls.
Archaeologists will spend another week excavating the site. NewsChannel 13's Phil Bayly reports. That's the verdict from archaeologists digging at the construction site for a parking garage. The distillery, dating before 1787, has been discovered near Broadway and the Quackenbush house in Albany. Seventeen vats for the manufacturer of rum have been unearthed, along with a system of pipes, honed out of solid white pine tree trunks.