On this episode of the Minute in New York History podcast, Devin Lander and Lauren Roberts were able to attend the unveiling of the brand-new Garnet Douglass Baltimore historical marker at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy along with Bill Pomeroy, founder of the William G. Pomeroy Foundation.
Garnet Douglass Baltimore was the first African American graduate of RPI and went on to a long and very successful career as a civil and landscape engineer. Dr. La Tasha A. Brown, Director of Community Relations at RPI is a podcast guest.
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Photo: Troy’s Prospect Park, designed by Garnet Douglass Baltimore, 1910 (Rensselaer County Historical Society).
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