General Electric moves headquarters to Schenectady
- Date Range
- April 15, 1892 – April 15, 1892
- Title
- General Electric moves headquarters to Schenectady
- What occurred
- In 1892 GE moved its company headquarters from New York City to Schenectady, NY. As we saw in the Sanborn map from 1914, the company set up along the Erie Canal. This brought in thousands of jobs, but as we know GE was responsible for a large amount of pollution.
- Location
- Schenectady, NY
- Image Citation
- https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn06246_005/
- Student name(s)
- Ryan Gallary