Albion is a village in Orleans County, New York, USA. The population was 7,438 at the 2000 census. The village is centrally located in the county and is partly in both the towns of Albion and Gaines. It is the county seat of Orleans County and is about 30 miles west north-west of the City of Rochester. It is part of the Rochester Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Albion was settled in 1812. A typical Erie canal town, it features early 1800s architec...
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Albion is a village in Orleans County, New York, USA. The population was 7,438 at the 2000 census. The village is centrally located in the county and is partly in both the towns of Albion and Gaines. It is the county seat of Orleans County and is about 30 miles west north-west of the City of Rochester. It is part of the Rochester Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Albion was settled in 1812. A typical Erie canal town, it features early 1800s architecture, with the peak of its stature coming and going with the canal construction. It was formerly called "Newport" but was incorporated in 1828 as the Village of Albion. At that time the village was entirely within the Town of Barre.
It competed to became the county seat, and in 1825 succeeded over Medina and others.
The origins of the science of ballistics can be traced to the County Court house in Albion. A farmhand named Phelps was accused of killing his employer in West Shelby, New York. The state called a so-called expert to the stand to...
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