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Albany is a city in and the county seat
County seat

A county seat or parish seat is a term for an administrative center for a county or civil parish, primarily used in the United States. In the Northeast United States, the statutory term often is shire town, but colloquially county seat is the term in use there....
 of Dougherty County
Dougherty County, Georgia

Dougherty County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia . As of 2000, the population was 96,065. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 95,693 ....
, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, in the southwestern part
Southwest Georgia

Southwest Georgia is a fourteen-county region in the U.S. state of Georgia . A common acronym used is SOWEGA.The largest city is Albany, Georgia....
 of the state. It is the principal city of the Albany, Georgia metropolitan area
Albany, Georgia metropolitan area

The Albany, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of five counties – Baker County, Georgia, Dougherty County, Georgia, Lee County, Georgia, Terrell County, Georgia, and Worth County, Georgia – in Southwest Georgia Georgia , anchored by the city of Albany, Georg...
.

ny is located at (31.582273, -84.165557).

The total area is 0.59% water. Albany lies in a belt of rich farmland in the East Gulf coastal plain on the banks of the Flint River
Flint River (Georgia)

The Flint River is an approximately long river, in the U.S. state of Georgia . The river drains 8,460 sq mi of western Georgia, flowing south from the upper Piedmont region south of Atlanta, Georgia to the wetlands of the coastal plain in the southwestern corner of the state....
.

rding to the United States Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data....
, the Albany, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) had an estimated population of 164,069 and ranked #234 in the U.S.






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Albany is a city in and the county seat
County seat

A county seat or parish seat is a term for an administrative center for a county or civil parish, primarily used in the United States. In the Northeast United States, the statutory term often is shire town, but colloquially county seat is the term in use there....
 of Dougherty County
Dougherty County, Georgia

Dougherty County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia . As of 2000, the population was 96,065. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 95,693 ....
, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, in the southwestern part
Southwest Georgia

Southwest Georgia is a fourteen-county region in the U.S. state of Georgia . A common acronym used is SOWEGA.The largest city is Albany, Georgia....
 of the state. It is the principal city of the Albany, Georgia metropolitan area
Albany, Georgia metropolitan area

The Albany, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of five counties – Baker County, Georgia, Dougherty County, Georgia, Lee County, Georgia, Terrell County, Georgia, and Worth County, Georgia – in Southwest Georgia Georgia , anchored by the city of Albany, Georg...
.

Geography

Albany is located at (31.582273, -84.165557).

The total area is 0.59% water. Albany lies in a belt of rich farmland in the East Gulf coastal plain on the banks of the Flint River
Flint River (Georgia)

The Flint River is an approximately long river, in the U.S. state of Georgia . The river drains 8,460 sq mi of western Georgia, flowing south from the upper Piedmont region south of Atlanta, Georgia to the wetlands of the coastal plain in the southwestern corner of the state....
.

Demographics


MSA

According to the United States Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data....
, the Albany, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) had an estimated population of 164,069 and ranked #234 in the U.S. in 2007. The MSA consisists of Dougherty, Terrell
Terrell County, Georgia

Terrell County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia . The 2000 United States Census reported the county's population at 10,970. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 10,260 ....
, Lee
Lee County, Georgia

Lee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia . As of 2000, the population was 24,757. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 33,050 ....
, Mitchell
Mitchell County, Georgia

Mitchell County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia . It was created on December 21, 1857. As of 2000, the population was 23,932....
, Worth
Worth County, Georgia

Worth County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Georgia . As of 2000, the population was 21,967. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 21,285 ....
, and Baker
Baker County, Georgia

Baker County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia . , the population is 4,074. The 2007 Census Estimate placed the population at 3,781 . The county seat is Newton, Georgia, Georgia ....
 Counties.

City

As of the census
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
 of 2000, there were 76,939 people, 28,620 households, and 18,889 families residing in the city. The population density
Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
 was 1,385.5 people per square mile (535.0/kmē). There were 32,062 housing units at an average density of 577.3/sq mi (222.9/kmē).

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The racial makeup of the city was 64.80% African American, 33.21% White, 0.21% Native American, 0.60% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.45% from other races
Race (United States Census)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget , are Self-concept data items in which residents choose the Race in the United States or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin ....
, and 0.71% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.23% of the population.

There were 28,620 households out of which 32.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.6% were married couples
Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
 living together, 25.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.0% were non-families. 28.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.54 and the average family size was 3.14.

In the city the population was spread out with 27.8% under the age of 18, 13.0% from 18 to 24, 27.7% from 25 to 44, 19.6% from 45 to 64, and 11.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females there were 85.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.8 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $28,639, and the median income for a family was $33,843. Males had a median income of $30,204 versus $22,268 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income

Per capita income means how much each individual receives, in monetary terms, of the yearly income generated in the country. This is what each citizen is to receive if the yearly national income is divided equally among everyone....
 for the city was $15,485. About 21.5% of families and 27.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 37.7% of those under age 18 and 18.9% of those age 65 or over.

History

Nelson Tift
The area where Albany is located was formerly inhabited by the Creek Indians
Creek people

The Muscogee , their original name they use to identify themselves today, also known as the Creek, are an American Indians in the United States people originally from the Southern United States....
. They called it Thronateeska after the flint
Flint

Flint is a hard, sedimentary rock cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert. It occurs chiefly as Nodule s and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones....
 found near the river. The Creeks used this stone to make arrow
Arrow

An arrow is a pointed projectile that is shot with a bow . It predates recorded history and is common to most cultures....
heads and other tools.

Connecticut
Connecticut

Connecticut is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The state borders New York to the west and south , Massachusetts to the north, and Rhode Island to the east....
 businessman Nelson Tift
Nelson Tift

File:Tift_thumb.jpgNelson Tift was an United States jurist, businessman, soldier and politician from the state of Georgia .Tift was born in Groton, Connecticut and moved with his family to Key West, Florida in 1826, and then to Charleston, South Carolina in 1830....
 settled along the Flint River in October, 1836 and named the new town Albany
Albany, New York

Albany is the Capital of the state of New York and the county seat of Albany County, New York. Albany is roughly 136 miles north of the city of New York City, and slightly south of the confluence of the Mohawk River and Hudson Rivers....
, after New York's
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 state capital because they both sit at the navigable head of a river.

Some historians have cited that Albany was not founded by Nelson Tift, but was founded by a group of Quakers who settled along the banks of the Flint River-having exhausted the navigable waters of the river. These Quakers named their new found settlement "Albany" because it was the same distance up the Hudson River to Albany, New York, as it was up the Flint River to their new settlement. The historical accounts of the day are that Nelson Tift actually purchased the land from the Quakers on account of the fact that the Quakers were forced to return to New York having encountered a hostile climate and Native American population; and, as a consequence, Nelson Tift did not actually found Albany, Georgia.

The city was laid out by Alexander Shotwell in 1836. The city was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly of Georgia on December 27, 1838.

Surrounded by a prosperous farming region which produced large amounts of cotton
Cotton

Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India and Africa....
, Albany was in a prime location for transportation of cotton by steamboat
Steamboat

A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam engine, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels....
s on the river, over which Tift had Horace King, a former slave, build a toll bridge
Toll bridge

A toll bridge is a bridge over which traffic may pass upon payment of a toll , or fee....
 in 1858. Albany later became a railroad hub and there is an exhibit on trains at the Thronateeska Heritage Center, which is located at the old railroad station.

In 1841 the Flint river flooded the city.

On April 11, 1906, the Carnegie Library opened downtown. It functioned as a library until 1985. In 1992 it reopened as the headquarters of the Albany Area Arts Council.

In 1911 the first airmail
Airmail

Airmail is mail that is transported by aircraft. It typically arrives more quickly than surface mail, and usually costs more to send. Airmail may be the only option for sending mail to some destinations, such as overseas, if the mail cannot wait the time it would take to arrive by ship, sometimes weeks....
 flight in the U.S. was inaugurated and the first airmail stamp was struck, both in Albany.

In 1912 the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse building opened downtown.

In 1925 the Flint river again flooded the city.

In 1937 Chehaw park was established as a part of a New Deal
New Deal

The New Deal was the name that United States President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to a sequence of central economic planning and economic stimulus programs he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the goal of giving aid to the unemployed, reform of business and financial practices, and recovery of the Economy of the Unite...
 program.

On February 10, 1940, a severe tornado
Tornado

A tornado is a violent, rotating column of air which is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud....
 killed eighteen people and caused wide scale damage.

In the summer of 1940 a Major Peacock approached the Albany Chamber of Commerce about the possibility of locating an Army Air Corp training base in Albany. Construction under the Army Corp of Engineers began March 25, 1941. The field was temporarily deactivated between August 15, 1946 and September 1, 1947 but then reactivated to support the Cold War
Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between a number of world powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, France, United Kingdom and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s....
, with the US Air Force stationing B-52 units and support units there. A number of other missions were hosted at Turner Air Force Base
Turner Air Force Base

Turner Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base near Albany, Georgia, Georgia ....


as the base was renamed. Among them were the 1370th Photomapping Group , and refueling and maintenance functions. The base was transferred to control of the US Navy in 1967 and was deactivated in 1974. In 1979 the Miller Brewing Company purchased part of the property to build a new brewing plant.

In 1951 the Marine Corps established a large base on the eastern outskirts of the city.

In 1960 the population reached 50,000.

During the early 1960s, Albany played a prominent role in the Civil Rights Movement
Civil rights movement

The Civil Rights Movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring approximately between 1960 to 1980. It was accompanied by much civil unrest and popular rebellion....
 (see Albany Movement
Albany Movement

The Albany Movement was a desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, on November 17, 1961. Local activists, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee , and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People were all involved in the movement....
).

In 1994 there was another severe flood, caused by Tropical Storm Alberto
Tropical Storm Alberto (1994)

Tropical Storm Alberto was the first storm of the 1994 Atlantic hurricane season. It hit Florida across the Southeast United States in July, causing a massive flooding disaster while stalling over Georgia and Alabama....
, killing 14 people and displacing 22,000.

In 1998 the Flint river crested at 35 feet, once again flooding parts of Albany.

Albany in The Souls of Black Folk

In W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois

'William Edward Burghardt Du Bois' was an American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanism, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. At the age of 95, in 1963, he became a naturalized citizen of Ghana....
' The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk

The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W.E.B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literature....
 (1903), Albany was featured in several chapters as a typical African American rural town in the South. In the book, Du Bois discussed the culture, agribusiness, and economy of the region. Du Bois described Albany as a small town where local sharecroppers lived. Much of the soil had been depleted of nutrients because of intense cotton cultivation. Once a bustling community full of cotton gins and toiling slaves, the place had declined steadily in the late 1800s as the Civil War
American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
 and Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation consists of two Executive order s issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War....
 drastically altered the demographics and economy of Albany. Du Bois wrote that Dougherty County had many decaying one-room slave cabins and unfenced land. Despite the problems, local folklore, customs, and the culture made Albany a unique town in the South.

Government

Elected officials include a mayor and six city commissioners, all of whom serve four-year terms. The commissioners represent the wards from which they are elected. There is also an appointed city manager
City manager

A city manager is an official appointed as the Administration Management of a city, in a Council-manager government form of city government. Called the chief administrative officer in some municipalities....
 who acts as the chief administrative officer
Chief administrative officer

A chief administrative officer is responsible for administrative management of private, public or governmental corporations. The CAO is one of the highest ranking members of an organization, managing daily operations and usually reporting directly to the chief executive officer....
. The city has been governed by a city commission and city manager since January 14, 1924. .

Economy

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Although Albany has expanded considerably in the past few decades, it is still able to retain the population and environment of a Southern town. Today, although the city is still surrounded by pecan
Pecan

The Pecan is a species of hickory, native to south-central North America, in the United States from southern Iowa, Illinois and Indiana east to western Kentucky, North Carolina and western Tennessee, south through Georgia , Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas ; and in Mexico from Coahuila south to Jalisco and Veracr...
 groves, pine trees, farm
Farm

A farm is an area of land, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food , fibers and, increasingly, fuel....
s and plantation
Plantation

A plantation is usually a large farm or Estate , especially in a tropical or semitropical country, like Brazil or Nicaragua on which cotton, tobacco, lice coffee, sugar cane and the like are cultivated, usually by resident laborers....
s, almost none of the population is employed in agriculture
Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
.

Health care
Health care

File:Ear surgery on a patient.jpgFile:Monoclonal antibodies3.jpgHealth care, or healthcare, refers to the treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered by the Medicine, pharmaceutical, Dentistry, clinical laboratory sciences , nursing, and allied health professions....
, education
Education

File:Inukshuk Monterrey 1.jpgEducation can be seen as a product or a process and considered in a broad sense or a technical sense. According to philosophy of education George F....
 and the Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany
Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany

Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany is a United States Marine Corps base located in Albany, Georgia. The primary mission of the units on the base is to rebuild and repair ground-combat and combat-support equipment and to support installations on the East Coast of the United States....
 are the largest employers. Manufacturing
Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the use of machine, tool and labor to make things for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to Industry production, in which raw material are transformed into finished good on a large scale....
, transportation, and retail trade are also important foundations of Albany's economy and the city acts as a hub for commerce in southwest Georgia.

On December 17, 2008, Cooper Tire and Rubber, one of Albany's largest employers, announced plans to close the local manufacturing facility. Approximately 1,400 employees at the plant will lose their jobs over the course of the next 12 months as Cooper completes the plant shut down.

Top ten employers in Dougherty County
(excludes City of Albany, Dougherty County, and Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany
Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany

Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany is a United States Marine Corps base located in Albany, Georgia. The primary mission of the units on the base is to rebuild and repair ground-combat and combat-support equipment and to support installations on the East Coast of the United States....
)
  • Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital
    Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital

    Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital is a regional medical center in Albany, Georgia.Phoebe provides maternal care, neonatal intensive care, cardiovascular surgery, radiation oncology and mental health services....
  • Procter & Gamble
    Procter & Gamble

    Procter & Gamble Co. is a Fortune 500, United States multinational corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, that manufactures a wide range of Fast moving consumer goods....
  • Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
    Cooper Tire & Rubber Company

    Cooper Tire & Rubber Company is a United States based global company that specializes in the design, manufacture, marketing and sales of automobiles, light truck, medium truck tires, and subsidiaries which specialize in motorcycle and racing tires, as well as tread rubber and related equipment for the retread industry....
  • Albany State University
    Albany State University

    Albany State University is a four-year, state-supported, Historically black colleges and universities located in Albany, Georgia, Georgia . It is one of three HBCU's in the University System of Georgia....
  • Miller Brewing Company
  • Teleperformance USA
  • Coats and Clark, Inc.
  • Palmyra Medical Centers
  • BellSouth Telecommunications
    BellSouth Telecommunications

    BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. is the Bell Operating Company of AT&T that serves the southeastern United States. BellSouth Telecommunications was formed on January 1, 1992 when BellSouth merged its operating companies, Southern Bell and South Central Bell, into one entity....
  • United Parcel Service
    United Parcel Service

    United Parcel Service, Inc. , commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery company. UPS delivers more than 15 million packages a day to 6.1 million customers in more than 200 countries and territories around the world....


Other notable companies
  • Georgia Pacific Corp.
    Georgia-Pacific

    File:GeorgiaPacificHDQ.jpgGeorgia-Pacific LLC. is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is one of the world's leading manufacturers and distributors of Tissue paper, Wood pulp, paper, packaging, building products and related chemicals....
  • MARS Snackfood US
  • Mediacom
    Mediacom

    Mediacom Communications is a cable television and communications provider in the United States.Originally founded as an analog television network in 1995, Mediacom is the 7th largest cable company in the United States by number of basic video subscribers....
  • Thrush Aircraft
    Thrush Aircraft

    Thrush Aircraft is a U.S. aircraft manufacturer based in Albany, Georgia. It currently manufactures the Ayres Thrush of agricultural aircraft....


Transportation

Southwest Georgia Regional Airport
Southwest Georgia Regional Airport

Southwest Georgia Regional Airport is a public airport located three miles southwest of the central business district of Albany, Georgia, a city in Dougherty County, Georgia, Georgia , United States....
 (ABY) is serviced by Atlantic Southeast Airlines
Atlantic Southeast Airlines

Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc. is an American airline based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA flying to 144 destinations as a Delta Connection carrier....
, a regional carrier for Delta
Delta Air Lines

Delta Air Lines, incorporation is a United States airline based and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia . Delta operates an expansive domestic and international network, spanning North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean....
. Both UPS
United Parcel Service

United Parcel Service, Inc. , commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery company. UPS delivers more than 15 million packages a day to 6.1 million customers in more than 200 countries and territories around the world....
 and DHL
DHL

DHL Express , is a division of Deutsche Post World Net providing international express mail services....
 use the airport as a sorting facility.

Freight rail service is provided by Georgia Southwestern Railroad
Georgia Southwestern Railroad

The Georgia Southwestern Railroad is a Class III railroad short line railroad company operating in southwestern Georgia and a small portion of Alabama....
 and Norfolk Southern Railway
Norfolk Southern Railway

The Norfolk Southern Railway is a major Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation. The company operates 21,500 route miles in 22 eastern states, the District of Columbia and the province of Ontario, Canada....
.

Greyhound Lines
Greyhound Lines

Greyhound Lines is an intercity common carrier of passengers by bus serving over 3,700 destinations in the United States. It was founded in Hibbing, Minnesota, USA, in 1914 and incorporated as "Greyhound Corporation" in 1929....
 offers intercity transportation to locations throughout the U.S., Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
, and Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....


Albany Transit System, operated by the city from 1974, provides fixed-route and paratransit services in Albany and Dougherty county, including service to the airport. The main transfer station is downtown.

Albany is located on Georgia State Route 300
Georgia State Route 300

State Route 300, also called the Georgia-Florida Parkway, begins at Interstate 75 in Georgia exit 99 at Cordele, Georgia in Crisp County, Georgia and ends at the Georgia -Florida line below Thomasville, Georgia in Thomas County, Georgia, connecting with Florida State Road 57....
 (Georgia-Florida Parkway).

The intersection of Lonesome & Hardup was named the fourth wackiest street name according to a 2006 poll by Car Connection website.

Education

The Dougherty County School System
Dougherty County School System

The Dougherty County School System is the school district in Dougherty County, Georgia . Currently, 16,844 students attend 15 elementary schools, 7 middle schools, 4 high schools, and 1 alternative school....
 and several private schools provide primary and secondary education. Private schools include Far Horizons Montessori School, Deerfield-Windsor School, Sherwood Christian Academy, Darsey Private High School, Byne Memorial Baptist School, St. Theresa's Catholic School and Life Christian School.

Albany is home to the historically black
Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Historically black colleges and universities are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of serving the black community....
 Albany State University
Albany State University

Albany State University is a four-year, state-supported, Historically black colleges and universities located in Albany, Georgia, Georgia . It is one of three HBCU's in the University System of Georgia....
 (ASU) and Darton College
Darton College

Darton College is a two-year unit of the University System of Georgia, located in Albany, Georgia, Dougherty County, Georgia , U.S.. The population of the United States metropolitan area was 162,800 in 2004....
. Both are part of the University System of Georgia
University System of Georgia

The University System of Georgia is the organizational body that includes 35 public institutions of higher learning in Georgia . The System is governed by the Georgia Board of Regents....
.

Albany Technical College provides tertiary
Tertiary education

Tertiary education, also referred to as third stage, third level, and post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of a school providing a secondary education, such as a high school, secondary school, or gymnasium ....
 occupational education
Vocational education

Vocational education or Vocational Education and Training , also called Career and Technical Education , prepares learners for jobs that are based in manual or practical activities, traditionally non-academics and totally related to a specific trade, employment or vocation, hence the term, in which the learner participates....
.

Health care

Albany is the home of a not-for-profit regional health system with a 26 county cachement area with Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital

Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital is a regional medical center in Albany, Georgia.Phoebe provides maternal care, neonatal intensive care, cardiovascular surgery, radiation oncology and mental health services....
  at its hub. Palmyra Medical Centers is a for-profit hospital.

Sports

ClubSport League Venue Logo
South Georgia Peanuts
Albany Baseball Team

The South Georgia Peanuts were a member of the South Coast League, based at the Paul Eames Sports Complex in Albany, Georgia. The team was not affiliated with Major League Baseball or Minor League Baseball....
Baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
South Coast League
South Coast League

The South Coast League of Professional Baseball, based in Conyers, Georgia, was a professional, Independent league baseball baseball organization located in the Southeastern United States....
Paul Eames Sports Complex
Paul Eames Sports Complex

The Paul Eames Sports Complex is a minor league and baseball stadium, located in Albany, Georgia. The stadium is the home of the South Georgia Peanuts, of the South Coast League....
South Georgia Wildcats
South Georgia Wildcats

The South Georgia Wildcats are a professional arena football team. They are a 2002 expansion member of af2, the minor league for the Arena Football League....
Arena Football
Arena football

Arena football is a sport based upon American football. It is played indoors on a smaller field than American football, resulting in a faster and higher-scoring game....
AF2
Af2

af2 is the name of the Arena Football League's minor league, which started play in 2000. The rules are the same as for the parent league. af2 plays its season from April to July....
, American Conference, Southern Division		James H. Gray, Sr. Civic Center
Gray Civic Center

The James H. Gray, Sr. Civic Center is an 8,702-seat multi-purpose arena in Albany, Georgia. It is home to the South Georgia Wildcats arena football team....


Local attractions


Museums and the arts
Ama
* Albany Area Arts Council
  • Albany Ballet Theater
  • The Albany Chorale
  • Albany Civic Center
    Gray Civic Center

    The James H. Gray, Sr. Civic Center is an 8,702-seat multi-purpose arena in Albany, Georgia. It is home to the South Georgia Wildcats arena football team....
  • The Albany Concert Association
  • Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum
  • Albany Municipal Auditorium
    Albany Municipal Auditorium

    The Albany Municipal Auditorium, located in downtown Albany, Georgia, U.S., was built in 1915 to replace a wooden auditorium on the same site used for chautauqua programs....
  • Albany Museum of Art
    Albany Museum of Art

    The Albany Museum of Art is located in Albany, Georgia, U.S. The museum is a non-profit organization governed by a 28 member elected board of directors....
     
  • The Albany Symphony Orchestra
  • Flint RiverQuarium
    Flint RiverQuarium

    The Flint RiverQuarium is a aquarium located in Albany, Georgia....
     
  • The Parks at Chehaw - one of two accredited zoo
    Zoo

    A Zoology garden, abbreviated to zoo, is an institution in which living animals are exhibited in captivity. In addition to their status as tourist attractions and recreational facilities, modern zoos may engage in captive breeding programs, conservation study, and educational outreach....
    s in Georgia
  • RiverQuarium Imagination Theater (Iwerks 8/70 3D large format)
  • Theatre Albany
    Theatre Albany

    Theatre Albany is an amateur production company in downtown Albany, Georgia, U.S. It presents six major productions annually.The theater seats 314 and is located at 514 Pine Avenue in the Capt....
     
  • Thronateeska Heritage Center
  • Weatherbee Planetarium


Parks and monuments
Albany Arch
Ah Front
  • Albany Civil Rights Memorial
  • Albany Railroad Depot Historic District
  • Astronauts Memorial
  • Confederate Memorial Park
    Confederate Memorial Park (Albany, Georgia)

    The Confederate Memorial Park in Albany, Georgia, United States is located on Philema Road across from The Parks at Chehaw.The stone monument to Albany's Confederate States of America veterans from the Civil War was originally located in downtown Albany in the middle of the intersection of Jackson Street and Pine Avenue....
  • Freedom Flame
  • Freedom Walk
  • The Guardian
  • Hillsman Park
  • Radium Springs
    Radium Springs, Georgia

    Radium Springs is an unincorporated community located on the southeast outskirts of Albany, Georgia in Dougherty County, Georgia, Georgia , United States....
     - one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia
    List of the Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia (U.S. state)

    The Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia are today generally acknowledged to be:*Amicalola Falls State Park*Okefenokee Swamp*Providence Canyon State Park...
  • RiverFront Park
  • Ray Charles Plaza
  • Royal Air Force Memorial
    Royal Air Force Memorial (Albany, Georgia)

    The Royal Air Force Memorial in Albany, Georgia, United States, honors the British Royal Air Force Air Training Corps buried in Albany and stands as a memorial to all British cadets who trained in the U.S....
  • Tift Park
  • Veterans Park


Registered historic places
  • Albany District Pecan Growers' Exchange
  • Albany Housefurnishing Company
  • Albany Municipal Auditorium
    Albany Municipal Auditorium

    The Albany Municipal Auditorium, located in downtown Albany, Georgia, U.S., was built in 1915 to replace a wooden auditorium on the same site used for chautauqua programs....
     
  • Albany Railroad Depot Historic District
  • Bridge House (Albany, Georgia)
  • Carnegie Library of Albany
  • Davis-Exchange Bank Building
  • John A. Davis House
    John A. Davis House

    The Captain John A. Davis House is currently used as a theater, Theatre Albany.External links...
  • Lustron House
    Lustron house

    The Lustron houses were prefabricated steel houses developed in the post-World War II era United States in response to the shortage of houses for returning GI s....
     at 1200 Fifth Avenue
  • Lustron House at 711 Ninth Avenue
  • Mount Zion Baptist Church
  • New Albany Hotel
  • Old St. Teresa's Catholic Church
  • Rosenberg Brothers Department Store
    Rosenberg Brothers Department Store

    The Rosenberg Brothers Department Store building is located in downtown Albany, Georgia, United States. The three-story brick structure was built in 1924 in an Italianate/Neo-Renaissance Neoclassicism style by J.C....
  • Samuel Farkas House
  • St. Nicholas Hotel
  • Tift Park
  • U.S. Post Office and Courthouse
  • Union Depot (Albany, Georgia)
  • W. E. Smith House


Notable Albanians

Ray Charles (cropped)
* Seattle Seahawks
Seattle Seahawks

The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington, USA. They are currently members of the NFC West of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
 football
American football

American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
 player Deion Branch
Deion Branch

Tony Deion Branch, Jr. is an American football wide receiver who currently plays for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League. He is 5'9" and 193 pounds and was picked by New England in the second round of the 2002 NFL Draft out of the University of Louisville....
  • Nellie Brimberry
    Nellie Brimberry

    Nellie Brimberry of Albany, Georgia, became the first Postmaster of a major United States Post Office in 1910.In 1911 she inaugurated the first airmail flight in the U.S....
     became the first Postmistress
    Postmaster

    Postmaster refers to the head of an individual post office. When a postmaster is responsible for an entire mail distribution organization , the title of Postmaster General is commonly used....
     of a major U.S. Post Office in 1910
  • Pianist
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
    , songwriter
    Songwriter

    File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
     and soul singer
    Soul music

    Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the African American culture through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, Secularity testifying." The genre occasion...
     Ray Charles
    Ray Charles

    Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
     was born in Albany on September 23, 1930 as "Ray Charles Robinson"
  • Olympic gold medal
    Olympic medalist

    An Olympic medalist is the winner of a medal in one of the Olympic Games. There are three classes of medal: gold medal, silver medal and bronze medal....
     jumper
    High jump

    The high jump is an athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of any devices....
     Alice Coachman
    Alice Coachman

    Alice Marie Coachman is an United States former Athletics . She specialized in high jump, and was the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal....
     was born in Albany November 9, 1923
  • Darion Crawford ("Smoke") from the hip-hop band Field Mob
    Field Mob

    Field Mob is a US hip hop music duo originally from Albany, Georgia composed of artists Shawn Timothy Johnson and Darion Crawford . They have been signed with Ludacris on his Disturbing tha Peace imprint since August 2005....
  • U.S. Representative from Illinois
    Illinois

    The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....
     William L. Dawson was from Albany
  • Paula Deen
    Paula Deen

    Paula Deen is an American cook, restaurateur, and Emmy Award-winning television personality.Deen resides in Savannah, Georgia, where she owns The Lady & Sons restaurant and runs it with her sons, Jamie Deen and Bobby Deen....
    , chef
    Chef

    A chef is a person who cooking professionally. In a professional kitchen setting, the term is used only for the one person in charge of everyone else in the kitchen, the executive chef....
     and host of Paula's Home Cooking
    Paula's Home Cooking

    Paula's Home Cooking is a Food Network show hosted by Paula Deen. Deen's primary culinary focus is Cuisine of the Southern United States and familiar comfort food that is popular with United States....
     on the Television Food Network
    Food Network

    Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs specials and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns roughly two thirds of the network, and Tribune Company owns the rest....
  • Jim Fowler
    Jim Fowler

    Jim Fowler is a professional zoologist and was host of the Emmy Award-winning television show Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.Fowler first served as the co-host of Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins, and then became the main host in 1986....
    , animal expert and host of the television show, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
    Wild Kingdom

    Wild Kingdom, sometimes known as Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, is an United States television show that features wildlife and nature....
  • Edward "Skip" Gnehm, United States ambassador
    Ambassadors from the United States

    File:Flag of a US ambassador.svgThis article contains several lists of Ambassadors from the United States. There are also individual articles listing the holders of many of the ambassadorial offices, for which see :Category:Lists of United States ambassadors....
     to Jordan
    Jordan

    Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is an Arab country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba....
    , Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
     and Kuwait
    Kuwait

    The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab emirate on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclosed by Saudi Arabia to the south and Iraq to the north and west....
     lived in Albany
  • Astronaut
    Astronaut

    An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a List of human spaceflight programs to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
     Thomas J. Hennen
    Thomas J. Hennen

    Thomas John Hennen is an United States astronaut who acted as a Payload Specialist on STS-44.Hennen was born August 17, 1952, in Albany, Georgia, and was raised all over the world....
     was born in Albany
  • Mary Hood
    Mary Hood

    Mary Hood is an award-winning fiction writer of predominantly Southern literature, who has authored two short story collections - How Far She Went and And Venus is Blue - and a novel, Familiar Heat....
    , award-winning author of How Far She Went, And Venus Is Blue and Familiar Heat, lived here during high school
  • Big Band
    Big band

    A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the swing from the early 1930s until the late 1940s....
     leader
    Bandleader

    A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....
     and jazz
    Jazz

    Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
     trumpet
    Trumpet

    The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest Register in the brass instrument family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC....
    eer Harry James
    Harry James

    Harry James was an United States musician and band leader, and a well-known trumpet virtuoso. James was one of the most outstanding instrumentalists of the swing era, employing a bravura playing style that made his trumpet work instantly identifiable....
     was born in Albany on March 5, 1916
  • Shawn Johnson ("Shawn J") of the hip-hop band Field Mob
    Field Mob

    Field Mob is a US hip hop music duo originally from Albany, Georgia composed of artists Shawn Timothy Johnson and Darion Crawford . They have been signed with Ludacris on his Disturbing tha Peace imprint since August 2005....
  • Architect
    Architect

    An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
     Edward Vason Jones
    Edward Vason Jones

    Edward Vason Jones , a Neoclassical architecture architect and member of the Georgia School of Classicism, began his career in 1936 with the design and construction of the Gillionville Plantation near his hometown of Albany, Georgia....
  • Hamilton Jordan
    Hamilton Jordan

    William Hamilton McWhorter Jordan was Chief of Staff to President of the United States Jimmy Carter....
    , former White House Chief of Staff
    White House Chief of Staff

    The White House Chief of Staff is the highest ranking member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and a senior aide to the President of the United States....
    , was raised in Albany
  • Baseball
    Baseball

    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
     player Ray Knight
    Ray Knight

    Charles Ray Knight is a former right-handed Major League Baseball Baseball player who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He was primarily a third baseman, although he did see some action at first base, second base, designated hitter, shortstop and in the outfield....
    , also managed the Cincinnati Reds
    Cincinnati Reds

    The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. They are members of the National League Central of the National League....
  • Golf
    Golf

    Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....
    er Nancy Lopez
    Nancy Lopez

    Nancy Lopez is an United States professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1977 and won three women's major golf championships and 48 LPGA Tour events in all....
     lives in Albany and is married to Ray Knight
    Ray Knight

    Charles Ray Knight is a former right-handed Major League Baseball Baseball player who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He was primarily a third baseman, although he did see some action at first base, second base, designated hitter, shortstop and in the outfield....
  • Amelia Marshall
    Amelia Marshall

    Amelia Marshall is an United States soap opera actor. She was born in Albany, Georgia.Her most famous role to date is television presenter Gillian "Gilly" Grant Speakes, which she played on Guiding Light from 1989 until 1996....
    , soap opera
    Soap opera

    A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in Serial format on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap....
     actress, was born in Albany
  • Russell Malone
    Russell Malone

    Russell Malone is an essentially Autodidacticism swing music jazz guitarist. He also performs in the bebop and contemporary jazz genres of jazz....
    , Jazz guitar virtuoso, was born and raised in Albany
  • Jo Marie Payton-Noble, Played Harriet Winslow on the US television show Family Matters
    Family Matters (TV series)

    Family Matters is an Emmy Award nominated American situation comedy about a middle-class family living in Chicago, Illinois. The series aired from September 22, 1989, to May 9, 1997, on American Broadcasting Company, and moved to CBS from September 19, 1997, to July 17, 1998....
  • Science fiction
    Science fiction

    Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media....
     writer
    Writer

    A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
     Paul Preuss
    Paul Preuss

    Paul Preuss is an United States writer of science fiction and science articles and is a science consultant for film companies. He is perhaps best known for the novels in Arthur C....
     was born in Albany
  • Merritt Ranew
    Merritt Ranew

    Merritt Thomas Ranew is a former Major League Baseball catcher. Ranew played in five seasons for the Houston Astros , Chicago Cubs , Atlanta Braves , Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim , and Milwaukee Brewers ....
    , Milwaukee Braves baseball player
  • Travis Richter, guitarist for the post hardcore band From First to Last
    From First to Last

    From First to Last is an American post-hardcore band. The band released their first EP titled Aesthetic in 2003 with vocalist Phillip Reardon, followed by Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count in 2004 and Heroine in 2006, both with vocalist Sonny Moore....
  • Conductor
    Conducting

    Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
     and composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
     Wallingford Riegger
    Wallingford Riegger

    Wallingford Constantine Riegger was a prolific United States music composer, well known for orchestral and modern dance music, and film scores....
     was born in Albany on April 29, 1885
  • U.S. Representative from Illinois Bobby Rush
    Bobby Rush

    Bobby Lee Rush is an Politics of the United States from Illinois. A Democratic Party , he has served in the United States House of Representatives as the member from Illinois' 1st congressional district since 1993....
     was born in Albany
  • Bill Stanfill
    Bill Stanfill

    William Thomas Stanfill is a former defensive end for the Miami Dolphins, in the American Football League and then in the NFL. He attended the University of Georgia ....
    , starting defensive end on Miami's back-to-back Super Bowl champs in the early 1970s, resides and practices real estate in Albany
  • Ray Stevens
    Ray Stevens

    Ray Stevens is an United States country music and pop music singer-songwriter known for his novelty songs as well as more serious works. He was born in Clarkdale, Georgia, Georgia , a small town west of Atlanta, Georgia....
    , country music
    Country music

    Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
     singer
  • Angelo Taylor
    Angelo Taylor

    Angelo F. Taylor is an American Athletics , winner of 400 m hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics.Born in Albany, Georgia, Angelo Taylor studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology and won the National Collegiate Athletic Association title in 1998 and placed second in 1997....
    , Olympic gold medal hurdler
  • Mark Taylor
    Mark Taylor (politician)

    Mark Fletcher Taylor is an United States politician and member of the Democratic Party . He served two terms between 1999 to 2007 as Lieutenant governor of the U.S....
    , Former Lieutenant Governor of Georgia
    Lieutenant Governor of Georgia

    The Lieutenant Governor of Georgia is a constitutional officer of the state, elected to a 4-year term by popular vote. Unlike some states, the Lieutenant Governor is elected on a separate ticket from the state Governor of Georgia....
  • Kenya DuBois Williams, Acoustic Ecologist and music producer, was born in Albany
  • Dontonio Wingfield
    Dontonio Wingfield

    Dontonio Wingfield is an United States professional basketball player who was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 2nd round of the 1994 NBA Draft....
    , former NBA basketball player
  • Montavious Stanley
    Montavious Stanley

    Montavious Stanley is an American football defensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the sixth round of the 2006 NFL Draft....
    , NFL player, Atlanta Falcons
  • Pamela Green-Jackson, Founder of The YBH Project, Inc. - a nationally recognized childhood obesity prevention program.
  • Daryl Smith
    Daryl Smith

    Daryl Smith is an American football player who currently plays linebacker for the Jacksonville Jaguars....
    , NFL player, Jacksonville Jaguars
  • Alexander Johnson
    Alexander Johnson

    Alexander Johnson is an United States professional basketball player for Brose Baskets of the Basketball Bundesliga, and formerly for the Miami Heat and Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association....
    , NBA player, Miami Heat
  • Bobby Dews
    Bobby Dews

    Robert Walter Dews, Jr. is a former infielder in Minor League Baseball and coach in Major League Baseball.Dews played and managed in the St....
    , former Atlanta Braves bullpen and 3rd base coach, and his wife Glenda resided in Albany
  • Lee James
    Lee James

    Lee James was an Olympic Games weightlifting for the United States....
    , Olympic silver medalist in light heavyweight weightlifting in 1976, attended Westover High School in Albany
  • Reginald D. Hunter, American comedian, living and working in the UK
  • Shekeetah N. Allen, Noted military and American speaker
  • The Lost Trailers
    The Lost Trailers

    The Lost Trailers is an American country music band established in 2000 in Atlanta, GA. Its members include Ryder Lee , Manny Medina , Andrew Nielson , Stokes Nielson , and Jeff Potter ....
    , Country music group from Albany, Ga. Nominated for CMA


Local media


Newspapers
  • The Albany Herald
    The Albany Herald (newspaper)

    The Albany Herald is the daily newspaper for Albany, Georgia, Georgia ....
     
  • The Albany Southwest Georgian historically Black Newspaper founded by A.C. Searles
  • The Albany Journal Published since 1939


Television stations
  • Channel 10 WALB
    WALB

    WALB channel 10 , is the NBC television affiliate in Albany, Georgia, serving the southwestern part of the state. It is currently owned by Raycom Media....
      (NBC)
  • Channel 14 WABW (PBS-GPB) (Pelham, Georgia
    Pelham, Georgia

    Pelham is a city in Mitchell County, Georgia, Georgia , United States. The population was 4,126 at the 2000 census. It was named for famed American Civil War officer John Pelham ....
    )
  • Channel 24 WBSK (CW) Cable Only
  • Channel 31 WFXL
    WFXL

    WFXL is the Fox Broadcasting Company network affiliate in Albany, Georgia. The station is owned by Barrington Broadcasting, and broadcasts on Ultra high frequency channel 31, with a digital signal on Very high frequency channel 12....
      (FOX)
  • Channel 44 WSWG
    WSWG

    WSWG is the CBS-affiliated television station for southwest Georgia that is licensed to Valdosta, Georgia. The station broadcasts a high-definition television digital signal on UHF channel 43....
      (CBS)
  • Channel 34 W34CZ (Trinity Broadcasting Network)


FM radio stations
  • 88.5 W203AT (religious; translator for KEAR)
  • 89.3 WBJY (religious)
  • 90.3 WAEF (religious)
  • 90.7 WWXC (religious, bluegrass)
  • 91.7 WUNV (NPR - news, classical)
  • 92.7 WASU (Albany State University
    Albany State University

    Albany State University is a four-year, state-supported, Historically black colleges and universities located in Albany, Georgia, Georgia . It is one of three HBCU's in the University System of Georgia....
     - college, jazz, urban)
  • 93.1 WSRD (religious, talk)
  • 96.3 WJIZ (urban)
  • 97.3 WRAK "Magic 97.3" (adult contemporary)
  • 98.1 WMRZ "Kiss" (adult urban)
  • 100.3 WOBB "B-100"(country)
  • 101.7 WQVE "V101.7"(Urban AC)
  • 102.1 WNUQ "Q102" (Top 40)
  • 102.5 W273AE (religious; translator for WYFK)
  • 103.5 WJAD "Rock 103" (classic and mainstream rock) (Leesburg, Georgia
    Leesburg, Georgia

    Leesburg is a city in Lee County, Georgia, Georgia , United States. The population was 2,633 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Lee County, Georgia....
    )
  • 104.5 WKAK "K-Country" (country)
  • 105.5 WZBN(Blues) "105.5 Southern Soul"
  • 106.1 KLOV(Christian Contemporary)
  • 107.7 WEGC "Mix 107.7" (adult contemporary)


AM radio stations
  • 960 WJYZ (gospel)
  • 1250 WSRA (ESPN sports)
  • 1450 WGPC (sports)
  • 1590 WALG (news, talk)


Miscellaneous


  • Albany, Texas
    Albany, Texas

    Albany is a city in Shackelford County, Texas, Texas, United States. The population was 1,921 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Shackelford County, Texas....
     was named in 1873 by county clerk William Cruger after his former home of Albany, Georgia.
  • The new U.S. federal courthouse
    Courthouse

    File:HistoricalMarkerUSGeorgiaMarchToTheSeaStatesboroRight.jpgA courthouse is a building that is home to a local court of law and often the regional county government as well, although this is not the case in some larger cities....
     in downtown Albany is dedicated to civil rights
    Civil rights

    Civil and political rights are a class of rights ensuring things such as the protection of peoples' physical integrity; procedural fairness in law; protection from discrimination based on sexism, religious intolerance, Racism, Homophobia, etc; individual freedom of freedom of belief, freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom...
     attorney
    Lawyer

    A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an Attorney at law, counsel or solicitor; a person licensed to practice fraud." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain stability, and deliver justice....
     C.B. King.
  • Nicknames for Albany include:
    • Artesian
      Artesian aquifer

      An artesian aquifer is a Aquifer#Confined versus unconfined containing groundwater that will flow upward through a water well without the need for pumping....
       City
    • Good Life City
    • Pecan
      Pecan

      The Pecan is a species of hickory, native to south-central North America, in the United States from southern Iowa, Illinois and Indiana east to western Kentucky, North Carolina and western Tennessee, south through Georgia , Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas ; and in Mexico from Coahuila south to Jalisco and Veracr...
       Capital of the World
    • Quail
      Quail

      Quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds in the pheasant family Phasianidae. New World quails and buttonquails and are not closely related but named for their similar appearance and behaviour....
       Hunting Capital of the World
  • In 1972 the manager of a local theater, Mr. Jenkins, was convicted of "distributing obscene material" for showing the film Carnal Knowledge
    Carnal Knowledge (film)

    Carnal Knowledge is a 1971 United States drama film. The film was Film director by Mike Nichols and screenwriter by Jules Feiffer....
    , in Jenkins v. Georgia
    Jenkins v. Georgia

    Jenkins v. Georgia, , was a U.S. Supreme Court Case of 1974 overturning a Georgia Supreme Court ruling regarding the depiction of sexual conduct in the film Carnal Knowledge ....
    .
  • Some Albanians pronounce the name as allBENny with emphasis on the second syllable, while others pronounce it ALLbany with the emphasis on the first syllable.
  • Albany is the only city in the entire nation that has had a Super Bowl MVP, a World Series MVP, and an Olympic Gold Medalist.
  • Albany was featured in the film Fireproof (film), the highest grossing independent film of 2008.
  • Albany was featured on Montel, E! TV, Southern Living Magazine, National Urban League magazine, etc. covering The YBH Project, Inc. For more information, visit www.ybhproject.org


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