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| In 1885 Charles
Bennett purchased Constable Point. He renamed the land as Antlers Point
and started to build. The hotel Antlers opened in 1887. It accommodated
200 guests, the largest in the area at that time. Antlers offered a main
building with modern conveniences as well as wall-tents, open camps, and
little cottages. Room and board was $17.50 to $25 per week. Advertisements
from S. R. Stoddard's book “The Adirondacks” helped publicize the resort.
In 1909 moneys for a road was allocated to be constructed from Antlers to
the Raquette Lake Railroad Station. It was a two mile span. Charles died
in 1915 and ownership was transferred to his sister Margaret Bennett who
sold the Antlers to the Cedar Island Corporation of New York in 1920 |
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