Albany, Georgia

Albany adalah sebuah kota di wilayah negara bagian Georgia dan ibu kota pemerintahanan Dougherty County, Amerika Serikat. Letaknya di barat daya Georgia, dan merupakan kota utama pada Albany, Georgia metropolitan area. Jumlah penduduknya 77.434 jiwa menurut Sensus Amerika Serikat 2010, menjadikannya kota terbesar kedelapan di Georgia.

Sejarah 
Area kota Albany sekarang dulunya dihuni oleh Creek Indians, yang menyebut tempat itu Thronateeska berdasarkan kata "flint" karena penemuan bahan mineral flint di dekat sungai. Orang Creek menggunakan flintstone ini untuk membuat peralatan dan senjata misalnya kepala anak panah.

Permukiman orang kulit putih dimulai oleh Nelson Tift, seorang pengusaha dari Connecticut, yang menguasai tanah sepanjang Sungai Flint pada bulan Oktober 1836 setelah pengusiran orang Indian. Orang Creek dipaksa untuk pindah ke Indian Territory di sebelah barat sungai Mississippi. Tift menamai kota barunya "Albany" seperti ibu kota negara bagian New York; keduanya sama-sama terletak di hulu sungai-sungai yang dapat dilayari. Alexander Shotwell membuat tata kota pada tahun 1836. Tempat itu di-inkorporasi sebagai kota berdasarkan peraturan General Assembly of Georgia pada tanggal 27 Desember 1838.

Geografi 
Albany terletak pada koordinat (31.582273, −84.165557). Berlokasi di daerah yang subur sepanjang sejarahnya di dataran pantai East Gulf, pada tepian sungai Flint.

Topografi 
Albany terletak di Upper Coastal Plain Georgia.

Lokasi 
Albany terletak di bagian barat daya Georgia,  southeast of Columbus,  sebelah selatan kota Atlanta,  sebelah barat daya Macon,  sebelah barat dari Tifton, dan  barat laut dari Valdosta.

Iklim

Demografi

Ekonomi

Perusahaan bukan pemerintah pemakai tenaga kerja terbesar di Dougherty County 
(tidak termasuk City of Albany, Dougherty County, dan Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany)
 Albany State University
 AT&T
 Coats and Clark, Inc.
 Miller Brewing Company
 Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital
 Procter & Gamble
 Pfizer Inc.
 Teleperformance USA
 United Parcel Service

Perusahaan terkemuka 
 Georgia Pacific Corp.
 Kendrick Brothers Productions
 Mars, Incorporated
 Mediacom
 Nilo Pecans
 Sherwood Pictures
 Thrush Aircraft
 Procter & Gamble
 Miller Brewery
 Pfizer Inc.

Seni dan budaya

Museum dan seni 

 Albany Area Arts Council
 The Albany Chorale
 Albany Civic Center
 The Albany Concert Association
 Albany Civil Rights Institute
 Albany Municipal Auditorium
 Albany Museum of Art
 Ballet Theatre South
 The Albany Symphony Orchestra
 Flint RiverQuarium
 The Parks at Chehaw has one of two accredited zoos in the State of Georgia
 RiverQuarium Imagination Theater
 Theatre Albany
 Thronateeska Heritage Center
 Weatherbee Planetarium
 Art Park on Pine

Tempat bersejarah teregistrasi 
 Albany District Pecan Growers' Exchange
 Albany Housefurnishing Company
 Albany Municipal Auditorium
 Albany Railroad Depot Historic District
 Bridge House (Albany, Georgia)
 Carnegie Library of Albany
 Davis-Exchange Bank Building
 John A. Davis House
 Mount Zion Baptist Church
 New Albany Hotel
 Old St. Teresa's Catholic Church
 Rosenberg Brothers Department Store
 Samuel Farkas House
 St. Nicholas Hotel
 Tift Park
 U.S. Post Office and Courthouse
 Union Station Depot
 W. E. Smith House

Olahraga

Monumen dan tempat wisata 

 Albany Civil Rights Memorial
 Albany Railroad Depot Historic District
 Astronauts Memorial
 Confederate Memorial Park
 The Flint Riverquarium
 Freedom Flame
 Freedom Walk
 The Guardian
 Radium Springs – one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia
 RiverFront Park
 Ray Charles Plaza
 Royal Air Force Memorial
 Veterans Park

Pendidikan

Sekolah swasta 
Sejumlah sekolah swasta untuk tingkat sekolah dasar dan menengah antara lain:
 Byne Memorial Baptist School
 Deerfield-Windsor School
 Far Horizons Montessori School
 Life Christian School
 New Beginning Christian School (NBCS)
 St. Teresa's Catholic School
 Sherwood Christian Academy
 The Vertical High School Academy
 Young Unlimited Minds Institute (YUMI)

Sekolah negeri 
Dougherty County School System mengoperasikan lima pusat belajar, 16 sekolah dasar negeri, 6 sekolah menengah pertama negeri, dan 4 sekolah menengah atas negeri. Semua sekolah itu diberi akreditasi oleh "Southern Association of Colleges and Schools" (SACS) dan "Georgia Accrediting Commission" (GAC). Sistem ini pada tahun ajaran 2009–2010 mencatat 15.838 murid yang diajar oleh 1.070 guru dan 198 tenaga pembantu serta personil administrasi.

Media

Surat kabar 
 The Albany Herald
 The Albany Southwest Georgian, historically black newspaper founded by A.C. Searles
 The Albany Journal, published since 1939; Tom Knighton is current editor and publisher.
 The Metro Gazette offers positive news about the community. Founded in 2010 by Judith Hampton-Thompson, graduate of the Ohio State University Journalism School.

Stasiun televisi 
 Channel 10 WALB (NBC)
 Channel 10.2 WALB-DT2 (ABC)
 Channel 14 WABW (PBS-GPB) (Pelham, Georgia)
 Channel 25 WACS (PBS-GPB) (Dawson, Georgia)
 Channel 31 WFXL (FOX)
 Channel 44 WSWG (CBS)
 Channel 44.2 WSWG-DT2 (MyNet)
 Channel 44.3 WSWG-DT3 (CW)
 Channel 55 WSST (Independent)

Stasiun radio FM 
 88.5 W203AT (religious; translator for KEAR)
 89.3 WBJY (religious)
 90.3 WAEF (religious)
 90.7 WWXC (religious, bluegrass)
 91.7 WUNV (NPR – news, classical)
 92.7 WASU (Albany State University – college, jazz, urban)
 93.1 WSRD (religious, talk)
 96.3 WJIZ (urban)
 97.3 WRAK "973 Hit Music Now" (Top 40)
 98.1 WMRZ "Kiss" (adult urban)
 100.3 WOBB "B-100"(country)
 101.7 WQVE "V101.7"(R&B & Classic Soul)
 102.1 WNUQ "Q102" (Top 40)
 102.5 W273AE (religious; translator for WYFK)
 103.5 WJAD "Rock 103" (classic and mainstream rock) (Leesburg, Georgia)
 104.5 WKAK "Nash FM" (country) (formerly K-Country 104.5 as of June 2013)
 105.5 WZBN "Power 105...The King" (Holy Hip Hop and Contemporary Gospel)
 106.1 KLOV (Christian Contemporary)
 107.7 WEGC "Mix 107.7" (adult contemporary)

Stasiun radio AM 
 960 WJYZ (gospel)
 1250 WSRA (ESPN sports)
 1450 WGPC (sports)
 1590 WALG (news, talk)

Tokoh terkenal 

Penduduk asli:

Penduduk menetap:

East Albany 

East Albany adalah sebuah distrik di Albany.

Subdivisi 
East Albany terbagi ke dalam subdivisi sebagai berikut:
 Colonial Village Subdivision, Albany, Georgia
 East Towne Subdivision, Albany, Georgia]
 Elon Village Subdivision, Albany, Georgia
 Isabella Heights Subdivision, Albany, Georgia
 Jackson Heights Subdivision, Albany, Georgia
 Mulberry Heights Subdivision, Albany, Georgia
 Northend Subdivision, Albany, Georgia
 Woodland Acres Subdivision, Albany, Georgia

Referensi

Pustaka tambahan 
 Carolyn Clive, Frances Davis, and Tom Liner, eds., Glancing Backward: Albany, Georgia, 1836–1986 (Albany, Ga.: Dougherty County School System and Sesquicentennial Publication Committee, 1986).
 Lee W. Formwalt, "A Garden of Irony and Diversity," in The New Georgia Guide (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996).
 Joseph Winthrop Holley, You Can't Build a Chimney from the Top: The South through the Life of a Negro Educator (New York: William-Frederick Press, 1948).
 Thronateeska Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, History and Reminiscences of Dougherty County, Georgia (1924; reprint, Spartanburg, S.C.: Reprint Co., 1978).
 Works Progress Administration, Historical Background of Dougherty County, 1836–1940 (Atlanta: Cherokee, 1981).

Pranala luar 

 South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive Digital Library of Georgia
 Old U.S. Post Office and Courthouse 
 

 
Georgia, Amerika Serikat
Dougherty County, Georgia
Albany, Georgia metropolitan area
Pendirian tahun 1836