Adirondack Americana

Had to travel to Brant Lake in SE Adirondacks today. Took 53 pics. I won't bore you with all, but here are a few of them that depict a bit of yesteryears & today. Pics. 1-5 show parts of this unique town called Horicon NY The millpond in the center of town covers about an acre. On the north side is Market st. with the white buildings. On the south side is the two churches, the fire house , the town municipal building and a few houses. On the west end is the dam and the post office kittered from it.
Heading back west on NY8 is the hamlet of Chester. (originally known as Riparius) See pics. 6-8 This is the upper Hudson River taken from the bridge site. This is the head waters of what turnes into an international deep water shipping port at Albany NY about 60mi south. The other end of the tracks in the pic. originate in Grand Central Station in NYC. Many of our countries most famous people including presidents, travled these rails to their summer retreats around Scroon, Blue Mtn. and surounding lakes to escape the city heat in the early 1900s
Pic. 9 Is of probably one of the smallest US Post Offices in the US. at Bakers Mills NY. About a dozen houses in the community.
Pic. 10 is an old gas station in Jonsberg NY on NY8 Had to post this for the people who posted on the restored ones.
Pic. 11 is old RT8 19?? Seams the beavers have adopted metal construction into their dam building.
The next two pics. are of two abandon farms along RT8. Farming there had to be tough at best with a 70-80day growing season and poor soil.
Last pic. is of a nicely restored farmstead on some flat land surounding the west side of Lake Algonquin in Wells NY.
Hope I'm not boreing all of you with these pics. on this forum as they are a bit OT.
PS-- Could someone here tell me how to post descriptions with each pic. rather than at the end of the post. Thanks Acg.
Sorry about the doubles, this thing has a mind of its own!

Thanks for posting these pictures of a part of the world I've never been. I probably never will tour that area so to see such good scenery pictures of it is welcome to me.

Thank you for the beautiful picture, Just like taking a trip.
gitrib

Thanks, that's beautiful country. Keep the pictures coming. C.L.

Thanks case guy. Not boring, keep it up.

Charley Hellickson Madrid IA.

Awsome!Good pics. Thanks!

those are great pictures! I dont know how to post under each picture either Im going to watch to see if you get an answer also thanks

Thanks for the pix. Pretty similar to us around here in Maine. Beaver have not got the hang of metal construction here yet.... they prefer to plug the metal culverts instead. I think our post office is no larger than the one you posted pictures of. The local historical society just aquired the previous town post office and it is only a 13x13 building. It had been the timekeepers office for a lumber mill here in town and a barber shop before that. My sister had lived in Wellsville,N.Y. for a time but found work hard to come by.
Thanks again for the photographs. I wish this here computer was fast enough to post more than one picture at a time.
Cal

Beautifull pictures.!!!! I get to travel through your eyes. Keep em comming. LOU.

Great pictures! It's interesting to see how the passage of time has treated some places in the country.

What a cool old town.Thanks fr the pictures.

Vito

What a cool old town.Thanks for the pictures.

Vito

Very nice pictures! Thanx for posting them. As far as commentary amongst the pictures-I don't remember if I have done that on this site, but on another site, after posting a picture, you hit enter, and type away, repeat till done. Greg

THANX MAN , Warmed my heart ..

Dont see no trout jumpin! Nice picks.A lot like Maine. Hoss

We're taking our little 6 year old for his first train ride up there on Father's day. Train leaves North Creek and goes to the Hudson River bridge at Riparius, then comes back. It's kind of a neat ride, but we wish they had a steam engine instead of the diesel.

The boat cruise at old Racquette Lake is also pretty neat to see some interior Adirondack views.
But again, wish it was a steamboat.

Hay Hoss here you go.
These rainbows ain't a jumpin, because they are too big and fat. 20-30some"

If I didn't have plans on fathers day weekend my wife and I would join you , but that is the weekend of the tractor show at Sunnycrest in Sharon. My son and I will have our tractors there.

Sunnycrest is tentatively scheduled to run three days this year, June 17th to the 19th. But, they haven't even put it on their own Website yet - so I wonder what the heck is going on. If you know, please post.

I've got the same schedule problem. I usually go to Sunnycrest every year, as well as the show in Gallupville (Gas Up). But, last year the Sunnycrest show wasn't near as good as usual, and I see MacFadden is no longer promoting it. I get the feeling the whole thing is going downhill. It's not even advertised in the local papers here anymore and I can't figure what the heck is going on. In-fighting maybe? There's been a lot of that is tractor and engine clubs in this part of New York. My wife ran the Hanford Mills Museum engine show for years until a bunch of engine collectors got into a feud and many refused to come anymore.

And Gallupville? I don't know what the heck is going on there either at the Father's Day "Gas UP" event. Last I heard it will be two weekends this year. June 11-12, and June 18-19. We went last year, but they started refusing anyone with dogs, so we turned around and left (our dog goes everywhere with us).

To the converse, the show held here locally is growing exponentially, next to me in Roseboom, New York. August 21 and 22, it's now one of the best shows/meets in this part of New York. Ten years ago, it was just 5-10 collectors that got together and had a barbecue. Now, it's huge.

An old friend of mine comes up from Florida every year and drives his old Deere (that he no longer owns). He's a retired dairy farmer and the Deere 620 came from his farm and on-site Deere dealership he had during the 40s and 50s. The 620 was a "new" leftover that he kept and farmed with for many years. Show info at 607-264-3015

That gas station is in Johnsburg, not Jonsburg. There used to be 3 gas stations in that town and I worked at one of them. Riparius used to be called Riverside. The city slickers changed the name back to Riparius in the late 80's. One side of the hamlet is in the Town of Johnsburg the other in the Town of Chester, the Hudson divides it. Bakers Mills has a lot more than 12 houses, they're just on side roads.

Grew up in North Creek. I can recall when the D&H ran daily trains to Tahawus and have actually unloaded trains at the siding in Riverside which as the pic shows no longer exists.

Teddy Roosevelt was informed of McKinnleys death at North Creek. Local legend says he was unofficially sworn in a President there by a local justice. The station at North Creek was a shambles till local folks decided to make it a historic site. At one time it was quite a resort town when it was about the first ski area in the States.