The Adirondacks 1830-1930The East's greatest wilderness, the Adirondack region of New York State, shares its history and lore with Native Americans, early settlers, artists, writers, sportsmen, professors, and others. The Adirondacks are known to outdoor lovers, skiers, and year-round visitors for their forty-six high peaks, one-hundred-mile canoe route, one-hundred-thirty-three-mile Northville-to-Lake Placid Trail, thirty thousand miles of mountain streams, and three thousand lakes. The Adirondacks: 1830-1930, tells how the region was first "discovered," explored, and preserved as the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, the largest park in the contiguous United States, a patchwork of public and private lands governed by one of the largest regional zoning plans in the country. With more than two hundred stunning photographs and fascinating tales of the region, it traces the development of the hamlets, the great camps, the guides, and the furniture and tanning businesses. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 6 |
Camps and Cabins and Clubs | 41 |
Adirondack Style | 61 |
Hotels and Inns | 91 |
Adirondack Transportation | 111 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acres Adirondack camps Adirondack country Adirondack guide Adirondack hamlets Adirondack lakes Adirondack log Adirondack Mountains Adirondack Park Adirondack settlements Adirondack settlers Adirondack Trail Adirondack wilderness Ausable Chasm AuSable Club automobile bark Beaver became Blue Mountain Lake boathouses bridge building built CAMP PERKINS Canada Lake canoe church deer early Adirondack farm fences fire towers Fish House forest Fourth Lake Fulton Chain guide boats hike horses hunters Indian Lake Jessups River Lake George Lake Placid Club Lake Pleasant lands lean-to Lewey Lake Long Lake mill Mohawk move the logs Nick Stoner North Creek Northville Old Forge photograph Piseco Pond popular postcard Raquette Lake resort road rock rustic Sacandaga Lake Sacandaga Park Sacandaga River Saranac Lake sawmill Schroon season Silver Bay Snowshoes southern Adirondacks Speculator station stone summer tannery tents Tibbitts town trees trip Verplanck Colvin village Whitman William Winter Carnival woodlands woods York