ADT-Monitored Home Security Service in Latham, NY

Latham is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Albany County, New York, United States. It is located along U.S. Route 9 in the town of Colonie, a dense suburb north of Albany. As of the 2010 census, the population was 20,736. Latham was a census-designated place in the 1970, 1980, and 1990 US Censuses, but ceased to perform the 2000 Census, then became a CDP again in 2020.

The Place was known at different time in its archives as Yearsley’s (c. 1829), Van Vranken’s (c. 1851), Town House Corners (c. 1860) and Latham’s Corners, named after hotel owner William G. Latham. The “corner” referred to is now the intersection of Troy-Schenectady Road (NY Route 2) and Old Loudon Road.

Before European increase to North America, Latham was occupied by Mohicans. The Old Loudon Road was built in 1755 during the French and Indian War to bring troops and provisions from Albany to the areas of Lake George and Ticonderoga.^{[citation needed]} The Troy and Schenectady Turnpike was built in 1802 and intersected Old Loudon. An in advance first resident of this hamlet was Jonas Yearsley, 1785, who cutting edge built the first hotel near to this intersection. The hamlet was known first under the name of Yearsley’s Corners and years following as Van Vrankens Corners in the 1850s. The name misused into Latham later William Latham became owner of the hotel. James, his son, continued to govern the hotel until he died upon August 14, 1933.