<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: Lansingburgh, New York </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: Lansingburgh, New York </Td> </Tr> <P> This is a history of Lansingburgh, New York . </P> <P> The town of Lansingburgh was originally intended as the site for the principal city north of Albany on the east bank of the Hudson River; but the inhabitants of the settlement a mile or two south of New City, as the village of Lansingburgh was first known, took advantage of the opportunities which presented themselves in rapid succession, and the prestige which in the natural order of things should have gone to Lansingburgh went to Troy, which rapidly outran its rival in the race for commercial supremacy in Rensselaer County . </P>

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