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- ↑ "A $200,000 Fire at Green Island." Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle, 1907-02-01. p. 1.
- ↑ "Federal Signal Works to Leave Green Island." Amsterdam Evening Recorder, 1907-03-19.
- ↑ Railway Age Gazette. Vol. 61, No. 1, 1916-07-07. p. 46.
- ↑ "Plane Building in Albany Hope of Simmons Co.; Buy Federal Signal Plant on Troy Road for About $450,000." Albany Evening News, 1927-12-13. p. 3.
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