More old Adirondacks

Some more old Adirondacks photos including some of my family.

My grandparents on Lake Champlain 1920s . . .

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My other grandmother who came though Ellis Island from southern France and lived on
4th Lake, Old Forge, Adirondacks. All groceries and mail came by steam-boat. These
photos taken 1924. In an around the cabin. Note: One of the women working there later
became a famous US movie actress (Claudette Colbert). Another French girl. Grandma
3rd to the right in first photo.
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Same Old Forge cabin when I finally located it in 1999. I got to strip it just before it got
demolished by a new owner. Inside and out.

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Gathering maple sap to make syrup

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Trying to farm and sometimes frost in July . . .

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Logging and camps. My wife and I own an old logging camp-site in Tug Hill, NY. It used
to have it's own small gauge railroad to get logs in and out.

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Source of the Hudson River that runs all the way to New York City. Hard to believe when
you hike up there and see it. Teddy Roosevelt hiked up there also. Over 4000 feet up.

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The kind of guys I aspired to be (but never quite made it)

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Adirondack steamboat that brought mail and groceries

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Wonderful, priceless pieces of history. Thanks for sharing.

did they have black flies back then??

jdemaris:

Extraordinary !! It's folks like these who made this country great. Glad your grans were among them.

Spent a lot of time on 4th lake at the North Woods Inn. That Place was a little strange ran all the tv cable from Old Forge up into Inlet

Is that you on the extreme left of picture two? ;-)

That's a load of logs for a team, must have to watch grades both up and down! Dan

Heck no. I'm not that old. That little kid became a famous Naval commander in WWII and got a ship named after him. F.C. Jordan. He's died years back and probably the F.C. Jordan ship has been scrapped too. My grandmother was sponsered to come to this country to take care of that little kid (and teach him French). The photo was taken 1912 and my mother wasn't born until 1918.

Great photos and very interesting history lesson.

Thanks for sharing them with us.

great old photos.

Real neat pictures of real people. The only other time I ever heard Tug Hill mentioned was by a buddy of mine who lives near Syracuse. He goes there snowmobiling(sledding he calls it!) Thanks for the pictures. Dale

Thanks a lot jd. My dad was born in Nov. 1918. His dad was killed in France, WW1, before Dad was born. He was only over there for two weeks. Norwegians from south east corner of MN. They couldn't get married before he shipped out. Grandma was a Hellickson. Her grandparents came from Norway.

Charley Hellickson, Madrid IA.