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Cooks from the Thousand Islands House in Alexandria Bay

Cooks from the Thousand Islands House in Alexandria Bay

Cooks from the Thousand Islands House. The hotel opened in July 1873, and was torn down after Prohibition and the Depression in 1937. The hotel hired chefs from outside the North Country and brought them into town. Circa 1900. Alexandria Bay, NY. Courtesy of the Alexandria Township Historical Society.

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