Tupper Lake Hotels and Inns A list of photos and text about our hotels and Inns from the past
   
Adirondack Hotels A list of long gone Adirondack Hotels with many photos and some local history
   
Adirondack Guides Some Adirondack Guide photos from my personal collection
   
Ampersand This story was written by Henry Van Dyke in 1885 for Harpers magazine
   
An 1887 Adirondack Trip  Professor D. R. Campbell, Thomas Wilson, Fred Hodges and Harvey Selden  from Rome and Harold Johnson from Prospect, returned today from a two-weeks' canoe trip in the Adirondack Lake Region.
   
Colporter Missionary  photo postcards These photo postcards were made in 1904, The traveling missionary carried a library of book to the new communities that were cropping up throughout the Adirondack wilderness
   
Hoofs on Ice As long as the Village Tupper Lake Village has been around the proximity to the lake has provided our community a winter arena for special events.
   
The John McConnell Story  John McConnell and his young bride Katherine were enjoying their honeymoon on the shores of the scenic St Lawrence, in Clayton, New York when a dreadful telegram was delivered into their hands.
   
Uncle Mart's Tall Tales Once upon a time, between the civil war and the end of that century there was a tall, angular, old gentleman by the name of Martin Van Buren Moody, who lived with the love of his life, "Minervie" in a little cabin on the shore of Tupper’s Lake
   
The Philosopher Camp Men once thought that wilderness needed to be domesticated, tamed of its wildness, defoliated and made into factories and farms. It was God’s work, so not many questioned it. Except for a group of New England pundits, who in 1858, from the staid confines of Cambridge and Boston decided to amuse themselves with a trek to the Adirondacks and left us memories worthy of our lament.
   
Savage Times On a sunny May day, in 1899, while boating on the Raquette River, Delbert Dye, an employee of the State Forestry at Axton unearthed not just a skull but a  complete skeleton. It was laying face downward, half buried in the sand, and after being exhumed, close examination failed to disclose any clew to the identity. Not even a button could be found.
   
Sir  Johnson's Cannon

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans, dragging iron cannons through wilderness ravines, in the end we made it through the mud and forest tall and we met the bloody British in the town of Montreal

   
The First Tupper Laker  It was May 28, 1890 when 14 survivors of Company K reunited at the Maplewood Inn in Elizabethtown to remember the anniversary of their leaving, 39 years prior, to fight in the Civil War.
   
Tupper Lake Village a Cow Pasture Tupper Lake village is the town that Uncle John Hurd built over night in McLaughlin's cow pasture, and that very shortly grew to such proportions as to admit only one rival in the Adirondacks in point of population and none in point of trade
Dr Ely's Trip Through the Adirondacks William Watson Ely, wrote an article for Moore's Rural New Yorker. In 1867, this enthusiastic Adirondack sportsman helped open the region cartographically by producing one of the earliest maps of the region "The New York Wilderness"
   
Man Hunting in the Adirondacks They were lured by the romance of vacationing in the heart of the primeval forest, these fishers of men in the wilderness

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