The Snow Train (which ran between Utica and Thendara) arriving at the Thendara Station. It was full of skiers headed for the slopes and winter activities in Old Forge. Circa late 1930s. Thendara, NY. Click here for the full story of Old Forge’s Snow Train.
The “Fawn” steamship being loaded with baggage (including barrels and steamer trunks) from a luggage cart on a makeshift dock. A canoe is banked in front of the steamship. The “Fawn” traveled the Moose River from Minnehaha to Fulton Chain (Thendara) in the late 1800s. “Fawn” was owned by William Scott Decamp. Circa 1870-1880. Town […]
Three men work stocking fish (transported in milk cans) on Crooked Lake, north of Beaver River Flow. The aircraft was a Stinson Seaplane operated by Phoenix Adirondack Flights out of Inlet, NY. Circa 1940s.
Fish stocking (in the early style, using milk cans to transport fish) at Brandreth Lake in the Town of Long Lake in Hamilton County in 1949. The plane delivering the cans of fish was operated by Phoenix Adirondack Flights out of Inlet, NY.
Pictured from left to right are: Merle Phoenix (the pilot, flying a Stinson Seaplane), Bob Charbaneau, and Howard Annin (who organized the project for the Rap-Shaw Hunting and Fishing Club). The men are posed in front of the prop plane and next to a Diamond T truck. The milk cans were being used to transport […]
Edith (nee Tuttle) Morsey poses with two large lake trout. Edith was a guide in the 1930s and 40s. Edith’s mother, Lottie, was the first female guide in New York State. Circa 1940s. Old Forge, NY.
Caption on photo reads: Central Adirondack guides starting out to plant fish furnished by the state conservation department, in the more out of the way streams reached only by foot. Guides are pictured in front of Marks and Wilcox store. On the truck are Maurice Callahan and Walt Marks. Standing: George Villiere, Dan Rivet, Reg […]
Caption on photo reads: Steamer “Fawn” which plied Moose River from Minnehaha to Fulton Chain (Thendara) in the late 1800s. “Fawn,” a sidewheeler steamboat, was owned by William Scott Decamp. Circa 1880-1890. Town of Webb, NY. Printed by Green Timber Studio of Thendara, NY.
Onlookers watch as firemen use ladders to climb onto the roof of the Old Forge House, to fight a fire at the hotel on the Old Forge Pond. 1913. Old Forge, NY.
An Adirondack guide standing on the edge of Twitchell Lake, holding a shotgun, with a deer in his guide boat. 1895. Twitchell Lake outside Big Moose in the Town of Webb. Photo taken by W.C.Nichols.
