Troy in Rensselaer County, New York — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Suffragist
Photographed by Trudi Jacobson, October 10, 2026
1. Suffragist Marker
Erected 2017 by William G. Pomeroy Foundation. (Marker Number 365.)
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Civil Rights • Women. In addition, it is included in the William G. Pomeroy Foundation series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1885.
Location. 42° 45.762′ N, 73° 40.886′ W. Marker is in Troy, New York, in Rensselaer County. It is at the intersection of 3rd Avenue and 2nd Avenue (U.S. 4), on the left when traveling north on 3rd Avenue. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 262 3rd Avenue, Troy NY 12182, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Upstate New York, in the Capital District, and in the Albany Metropolitan Area. It is also in the American Northeast and in the Mid-Atlantic. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Netherland and also one of the original Thirteen
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Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: World War Memorial (approx. ¼ mile away); San Francisco Giants (approx. 0.3 miles away); Troy, N.Y. Hall of Famers (approx. 0.3 miles away); Water Fire Iron / .7 Sq. Mi. / Age of Rail (approx. 0.4 miles away); Welcome to Green Island (approx. 0.4 miles away); Van Schaick Mansion (approx. 0.4 miles away); a different marker also named Van Schaick Mansion (approx. 0.4 miles away); a different marker also named Van Schaick Mansion (approx. 0.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Troy.
Also see . . . SUFFRAGIST | William G. Pomeroy Foundation. (Submitted on February 13, 2022, by Jordan Romano of Kings Park, New York.)
Additional commentary.
1. Caroline Gilkey Rogers
Caroline Gilkey Rogers (1837–1899) was an active suffragist in Lansingburgh during the 1880s and 1890s. Her home, at the northeast corner of Third Avenue and 106th Street, became a gathering place for suffrage workers and was known informally as the “Equal Rights Hotel.” She hosted visiting activists including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
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2. Suffragist Marker
Rogers worked locally as well as nationally. She helped organize women to participate in Lansingburgh school elections, where women had limited voting rights, and reported on that work at the National Woman Suffrage Association convention in Washington in 1884. She noted that 252 women had voted in one Lansingburgh school election and argued that women who paid taxes should have a voice in public affairs.
In 1885 Rogers and other women attempted to vote in a Lansingburgh election concerning a proposed $15,000 expenditure for waterworks. Although the election call invited the village’s “taxable inhabitants” to vote, officials refused the women’s ballots. Rogers later recalled being told that the phrase did not include women. Contemporary accounts reported that Lansingburgh women owned taxable property worth more than $367,000 and intended to challenge their exclusion.
Rogers also addressed state and national suffrage meetings and testified before congressional committees. In testimony published in the 1880s, she argued that women sought the ballot because it was the “symbol of equality.” In 1888 she was named a New York presidential elector on the Equal Rights Party ticket supporting Belva Lockwood. Rogers remained active in the suffrage movement until her death in 1899.
Sources
Gordon, Ann D., ed. The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Rutgers University Press.
Useful for Rogers’s place within the national suffrage network and her association with leading suffragists. Alexander Street Documents
History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. III.
Contemporary documentation of the 1885 Lansingburgh waterworks election and the refusal of women taxpayers’ ballots.
Lansingburgh Historical Society. “A New Historical Marker for Lansingburgh!” The Courier, March 2017. — Excellent
Photographed by Trudi Jacobson, October 10, 2026
3. Suffragist Marker
Lansingburgh Historical Society. “Caroline Gilkey Rogers, presidential elector for Belva Ann Lockwood (1888).” — Reprints contemporary newspaper evidence documenting her role on the Equal Rights Party ticket. Lansingburgh Historical Society
National Woman Suffrage Association. Report of the Sixteenth Annual Washington Convention, 1884. — Rogers’s own account of school-suffrage activity in Lansingburgh.
— Submitted October 11, 2026, by Trudi Jacobson of Slingerlands, New York.
Credits. This page was last revised on October 15, 2026. It was originally submitted on February 13, 2022, by Jordan Romano of Kings Park, New York. This page has been viewed 289 times since then and 35 times this year. Photos: 1. submitted on October 11, 2026, by Trudi Jacobson of Slingerlands, New York. 2. submitted on February 13, 2022, by Jordan Romano of Kings Park, New York. 3. submitted on October 11, 2026, by Trudi Jacobson of Slingerlands, New York. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.
