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Historian Talk: The Great Fire of May 10, 1862 with Kathy Sheehan

  • Hart Cluett Museum 57 2nd Street Troy, NY 12180 USA (map)

A City of Smoke and Cinders

On May 10, 1862, a fire burned through Troy when a locomotive’s sparks ingnited the wooden Green Island Bridge. The disaster took the lives of more than 15 people and destroyed 500 buildings with a monetary loss of more than 2 million dollars.

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