Excerpt from The Albany Hand-Book; A Strangers' Guide and Residents' Manual: Containing Information About the City Government, Schools and Churches; Description and History of Public Buildings and Institutions, With Special Reference to Washington Park, the Rural Cemetery and the New Capitol
Albany Academy, The, or the Boys' Academy, as it is often called, was incorporated March 4, 1813. Its first session was held September 11.
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