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Albany, Wisconsin, is a village of about 1000 people in Green County, which is located on the Illinois border. Albany is nearly dead center of the rough parallelogram formed (clockwise from the northwest) by Monticello, Evansville, Brodhead, and Monroe. It's about midway between Monroe and Evansville on state highway 59.
According to the Albany website, the village was originally called Campbell's Ford after James Campbell an early settler who was there in 1839. The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names says some of the first settlers came from Albany, New York.