Albany, VT

Albany is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The 2020 census counted 976 residents. Albany contains four villages: the incorporated village of Albany, and the unincorporated villages of Albany Center, East Albany and South Albany. The original land grant was given to Col. The Northeast Kingdom Music Festival held annual performances in Albany in the early 2000s. Attendance was limited to 2000. A newcomer can read Albany through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Albany comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. George Putnam was an Underground Railroad agent before the Civil War. The town is hilly and uneven. Albany includes the Black River.