Loudonville, New York

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|footnote = Sources: Censuses 1970 and 1980;{{cite book | title = 1980 Census of Population; Volume 1: Characteristics of the Population | page = 34-10 | access-date = 2010-02-13 | year = 1980 | publisher = United States Census Bureau | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=PpUXAAAAYAAJ&q=roessleville+1980+census&pg=SA34-PA10}} and 1990.{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=2008-01-31|title=U.S. Census website}}

|1970 |9299|1980 |11480|1990 |10822|2020 |10296}}

The hamlet is named after John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun and was originally a 19th-century summer resort for some of Albany's wealthiest residents.{{cite web | title = Loudonville, New York Community Profile | access-date = 2009-04-20 | date = 1987-04-15 | url = http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=1067 | publisher = Epodunk}} Loudon Road, known as Old Plank Road in the early 19th century,{{cite web | title = Post Office Prestige Loudonville Boxes Project Image of Affluence | access-date = 2009-04-20 | date = 1987-04-15 | url = http://archives.timesunion.com/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5415048 | publisher = Albany Times Union }}{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} is lined with several historic Jeffersonian mansions.{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=547|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Loudon Road Historic District|date=June 1979|access-date=2010-10-18 |author=Doris Manley|publisher=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation}} See also: {{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=548|title=Accompanying 15 photos}} Loudonville started as a hamlet on Loudon Road (originally a plank road), at the intersection of Crumitie Road.{{cite web | title = Albany, Rensselaer, Columbia counties |format=map | year = 1895 | author = Joseph Bien | publisher = Julius Bien & Co. | url = http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~26287~1110050:Albany,-Rensselaer-and-Columbia-cou?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=q:albany,+ny;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort,Pub_Date,Pub_List_No,Series_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=2&trs=142 | access-date = 2009-08-11}} Ireland's Corners was a separate hamlet to the north at the intersection of Loudon Road and Menand/Osborne Road, with a post office.{{cite book | page = [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_R_zHwh4xByQC/page/n175 166] | title = Gazetteer of the State of New York | author = J.H. French | publisher = R. Pearsall Smith | year = 1860 | url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_R_zHwh4xByQC | quote = loudonville ireland's corner. | access-date = 2009-08-11}} Ireland's Corners is named for Elias H. Ireland who in 1832 bought the heavily wooded area from the Patroon, Stephen Van Rensselaer.{{cite book | title = Bi-centennial history of the county of Albany, New York from 1609-1886 | page = 936 | access-date = 2010-01-31 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nWkJAQAAIAAJ&q=ireland%27s+corners+loudonville&pg=PA936 | author = George Rogers Howell and Jonathan Tenney | year = 1886 | publisher = W.W. Munsell & Co.}} In 1871 the post office at Ireland's Corners was renamed Loudonville.

The community is located directly north of Albany and south of Newtonville. The hamlet is centered on the original Ireland's Corners, the intersection of U.S. Route 9 with Osborne Road (County Route 154)/Menand Road (NY Route 378) (west bound name/east bound names respectively), with the northwestern corner bisected by Old Niskayuna Road (County Route 152). Though as a hamlet, it has poorly defined borders, the census designated place of Loudonville had concrete borders.

{{Geographic Location

|Centre = Hamlet of Loudonville

|North = Hamlet of Newtonville

|Northeast = City of Watervliet

|East = Village of Menands

|South = City of Albany

|Southwest = Hamlet of West Albany

|West = Hamlet of Roessleville

|Northwest = Hamlet of Newtonville

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• Siena College:[https://web.archive.org/web/20070630002125/http://www.siena.edu/level3col.aspx?menu_id=528&id=108 'About Siena', Siena College website] A private Roman Catholic College (Franciscan)
• Schuyler Meadows Club: The Club was founded in 1926 by residents of Loudonville who did not wish to travel to the Albany Country Club, which at the time was located at the current site of the uptown campus of the University at Albany, SUNY. The clubhouse, built in 1927, is modeled on the central portion of George Washington's Mount Vernon home.{{cite web | title = Welcome to Schuyler Meadows Club | url = http://www.schuylermeadows.com/ | publisher = Schuyler Meadows Club | access-date = 2009-04-08}}
• The Bryan's Store, D. D. T. Moore Farmhouse, Gorham House, Hughson Mansion, Loudon Road Historic District, Springwood Manor, Wheeler Home, Holub Home, Friend Humphrey House, and Whitney Mansion are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

• Roger McNamee, venture capital and private equity investor, founder of Elevation Partners and Silver Lake Partners, grew up in Loudonville.{{cite news | title = Rock and Roll Hall of Fame notes venture capitalist from Loudonville | url = http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Rock-and-Roll-Hall-of-Fame-notes-venture-3822367.php | publisher = Albany Times Union | access-date = 2016-06-09 | date=2012-08-28}}
• Henry Reed Rathbone, present at Lincoln's assassination, lived on Cherry Tree Rd.{{cite news | title = The Rathbone Tragedy | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D05EFDC1538E033A2575AC2A9649D94629FD7CF | work = New York Times | access-date = 2009-04-15 | date=1883-12-29}}
• Joan Vollmer, beatnik and common law wife of William S. Burroughs.Knight, B., Waldman, A. & Charters, A., Women of the Beat generation: the writers, artists, and muses at the heart of revolution, Conari, 1998, p.49
• James H. Fallon, American neuroscientist and author.
• The Right Rt. David S. Ball, Former bishop of the Episcopalian Diocese of Albany

• Watervliet (town), New York

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