General Wool
General Wool is a memorial in Rensselaer, New York. General Wool is situated nearby to Uncle Sam’s Grave, as well as near the historic building Warren Family Mortuary Chapel.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lansingburgh High School and Lansingburgh Village Burial Ground.
Lansingburgh High School
School
Lansingburgh High School is a senior high school in Troy, New York, and part of the Lansingburgh Central School District. It has 790 students in grades 9–12. Lansingburgh High School is situated 1,400 feet northwest of General Wool.
Lansingburgh Village Burial Ground
Cemetery
Lansingburgh Village Burial Ground is a historic cemetery located in the Lansingburgh section of Troy in Rensselaer County, New York. It was founded in 1771 and contains approximately 350 graves dating to 1912. Lansingburgh Village Burial Ground is situated 2,900 feet northwest of General Wool.
Van Schaick House
Museum
Photo: Tsf01, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Van Schaick House is a historic home located on Van Schaick Island at Cohoes in Albany County, New York. It was built about 1735 for Anthony Van Schaick, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, brick dwelling with a gambrel roof. Van Schaick House is situated 1 mile northwest of General Wool.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Green Island and Cohoes.
Green Island
Village
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Green Island is a coterminous town-village in Albany County, New York, United States, some 8 miles north of Albany. Green Island is one of only five such town-village amalgamations in New York. Green Island is situated 1½ miles southwest of General Wool.
Cohoes
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Cohoes is a city in Albany County on the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers, where the Mohawk forms several channels and islands.
Troy
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Troy is a city in Rensselaer County, New York located northeast of Albany. Its nicknames include "The Collar City" and "Home of Uncle Sam." As a result of its unique history, Troy still has what is widely considered to be the best-preserved big-city 19th-century downtown in the country.
General Wool
- Type: Memorial
- Category: historic site
- Location: Rensselaer, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.76116° or 42° 45′ 40″ northLongitude
-73.66981° or 73° 40′ 11″ westOpen location code
87J8Q86J+F3OpenStreetMap ID
node 526641969OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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