Albany or Wedding

Albany is a city in Linn County, western Oregon, United States. It is located in the Willamette Valley and is the county seat of Linn CountyGR6. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 42,280 making it the 12th largest city in Oregon.

Albany was named for Albany, New York by the brothers Walter and Thomas Monteith, a family of early prominence in the area, in 1850. [citation needed]

The site of the city at the confluence of the Calapooia River with the Willamette. In the 19th century, the area was inhabited by Kalapuya, a Penutian-speaking Native American people who inhabited the middle Willamette Valley. The Kalapuya called the area Tekenah, from a word meaning "the deep pool where the rivers meet" (and often humorously translated to "hole in the ground"). The name specifically refers to a location near the confluence of the Calapooia where the current had cut a hole near the bank. It is the earliest known name for the locality, and was also the name for a neighboring Kalapuya settlement as late as the 1850s.