Herr-Story by Charles Herr
Fulton Chain Steamers III: The Fulton Navigation Co. Years, 1901–1932 PART TWO A few years after purchasing the “Adirondack,” the Company shipped it to Raquette Lake for use with the “Killoquah” and it...
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Fulton Chain Steamers III: The Fulton Navigation Co. Years, 1901–1932 Part III-Conclusion After 1910, the motor car became the favored mode of transport in the region and across America and to this day...
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Before there was Inlet I: Farrand Benedict, the Shedds and the Munns PART ONE On November 27, 1901, the Hamilton County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed an act that created a new town from...
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Before there was Inlet I: Farrand Benedict, the Shedds and the Munns PART TWO Marshall S. Shedd Jr.’s father, Rev. Marshall S. Shedd, was born in Cambridge, MA in 1786, married Eliza Thayer, whose...
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Before there was Inlet I: Farrand Benedict, the Shedds and the Munns PART THREE Two years after Benedict submitted his report (1848), the railroad baton was passed as the Sacketts Harbor and Saratoga...
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Before there was Inlet I: Farrand Benedict, the Shedds and the Munns PART FOUR In 1848, the Shedd brothers built a “gang-mill” utilizing 32 saws on the Moose River a mile from its junction with the...
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Before there was Inlet II: James Galvin and the Fulton Chain Club PART ONE For us and many other property owners in Inlet, the abstract of title invariably lists James and Jennie Galvin as early, if...
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Before there was Inlet II: James Galvin and the Fulton Chain Club PART THREE Theodore Basselin was an unusual choice for Forest Commissioner in 1885 as he was also a lumber baron. Charles Goodwin...
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Before there was Inlet II: James Galvin and the Fulton Chain Club PART FOUR The 1891 prospectus (written by Ephraim Myers) announced that Fred Hess’s new hotel soon to be completed would be the...
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Before there was Inlet II: James Galvin and the Fulton Chain Club… PART FIVE In May 1898, James Galvin sold land to Duane Norton who built the Seventh Lake House. But 1898 would present new problems...
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Part One In a prior article, I wrote about a little known Inlet navigation company that operated stage and steamboat transportation for passengers and freight from the head of Fourth Lake (today’s...
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The Navigation Companies from Inlet to Raquette Lake Part three Beaver Camp, at the foot of Eighth Lake, was located near where in 1896 Durant’s new road from Mohegan Lake crossed to connect with the...
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Part four Benjamin T. Gilbert, the top shareholder in both companies—the Fulton Chain and Raquette Lake Transportation Company, and the Fulton Chain and Raquette Lake Steamboat Company, both formed in...
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The Navigation Companies from Inlet to Raquette Lake Part Seven Imagine the reaction of Charles Moshier when he received a message in December 1897 from Fred Kirch informing him that three steamers,...
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Lt. Gov. Timothy L. Woodruff’s Letter to W.W. Durant Just when I think I have learned all of the origins and instigators for the building of the Raquette Lake Railroad during 1899, I find a new...
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The Worst Guides… and The Worst Landowners PART ONE Before railroads and automobiles, travelers depended on the quality and skills of North Woods guides to show them the region’s natural beauty, to...
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PART TWO Mr. Bull accompanied Cole and they tracked Parker down. Cole urged Parker six times to surrender and then shot him. Nessmuk says it was while Parker dodged behind his wife who was helping him...
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Part Three Orrando Dexter. Besides being killed, Orrando Dexter’s name also suffered in that it was repeatedly given as Orlando, even by Donaldson’s history. Barbara McMartin spelled it correctly....
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Part One I sometimes find a newspaper article that resists my summarizing or paraphrasing without detracting from its essence. In the Lowville Journal & Republican of August 6, 1891 was a letter...
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Part two Some five years ago a wooden railway (first Fulton Chain Rail-way] was built, beginning at Moose River tannery so-called, which is situated thirteen miles from Boonville (a village on the...
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— Part THREE — Also on the transportation schedules page that appeared in a July 1900 issue of The Adirondack News, were the following lines… — Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad This line was...
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