Baxter's Crossing seems to have been the name for one or both of the railroad crossings in the Oil Mill Hill and Northern Drive area, now the northern end of the Uncle Sam Bikeway. The northeastern part of the Village of Lansingburgh had for a time been called Adamsville or Baxterville.
The horses attached to the Tomhannock stage were frightened by the cars at Baxter's crossing yesterday and overturned the vehicle. The driver was the only person on board at the time and, he escaped uninjured."Lansingburgh." Troy Daily Times. July 15, 1880: 3 col 3.A valuable cow owned by D. Ellis, a milkman residing on the Alexander premises in Adamsville, was run over by the cars and killed at Baxter's crossing of the Troy and Boston railroad yesterday."Lansingburgh." Troy Daily Times. October 13, 1882: 2 col 7.
