19 Crown Point — Cracking down on bicycles

Some towns passed safety laws to require bicyclists to sound bells when they were approaching a horse-drawn vehicle.

Crown Point took a more restrictive approach.

“One town in the state — Crown Point — has practically prohibited the use of the bicycle by making an ordinance forbidding riders to go at a speed of more than four miles an hour,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on July 16, 1895. “At that rate it would be difficult for most riders to keep the machine up.”

In other 19th century Crown Point news collected from historic newspapers of the region:

• Industry at Ironville was full steam ahead.

“Preparations are being made to put in steam power to run the forge and other works here. It will make business more lively at this point, the Ironville correspondent reported in the Ticonderoga Sentinel on Oct. 24, 1879.

• “The depot at Crown Point was robbed of $16 in cash and a $100 silver cornet last Monday night,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Oct. 17, 1879.
• “Your male readers, even, may be interested in a remarkable quilt which Mrs. Hadaway has been at work for some time. The number of pieces fall but little short of four thousand,” the Ironville correspondent reported in the Elizabethtown Post & Gazette on May 1, 1879.
• “Hiram Buck has let the Col. Conn farm to Wm. Baldwin who has it neatly plowed already, as are nearly all gardens in this vicinity. Peas and onions have been sowed,” the Crown Point Centre correspondent reported in the Elizabethtown Post & Gazette on May 1, 1879.
• “Samuel Rock has the new maple sugar evaporator. It evaporates the sap, not the sugar, in 45 minutes. Sap drops into one end and out of the other comes pure thick syrup,” the Crown Point Centre correspondent reported in the Elizabethtown Post & Gazette on May 1, 1879.
• “The Factoryville Amateur Dramatics Club will give a display of their dramatic talent ere long,” the Crown Point Centre correspondent reported in the Elizabethtown Post & Gazette on May 8, 1879.
• “Factoryville Observatory is again open. Will Bennett had our field glass up there last week and claims the view will pay for the climb,” the Crown Point Centre correspondent reported in the Elizabethtown Post & Gazette on May 15, 1879.
• “A. G. DePoutee has erected a neat barn on the shore of Putt’s Creek,” the Crown Point Centre correspondent reported on June 26, 1897.

“A. G. DePoutee’s new barn in an ornament to the dugway,” the Crown Point Centre correspondent reported on July 3.

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