19th century Horicon — New hotel

New lodging was in the works.

“Smith Barton is making arrangements to put up a new hotel at Brant Lake, on the site of the Palisades, recently destroyed by fire,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on Nov. 1, 1894.

“A party of gentlemen from Brooklyn have bought a lot on Brant Lake. They are preparing to erect a cottage to be known as the Horicon Club House. They have employed R. H. Bolton to superintend the work,” The Morning Star reported separately in Nov. 1. “The Horicon correspondent of The Star writes that Abel Crook of Brooklyn is one of the proprietors; that several smaller cottages will be constructed around the main house; and that they will be located on what is known as the Emily Bruce farm.”

The hotel opened the next summer.

“The newly erected Palisades is now open for the season. South Barton has employed William Owens to take charge of the house this coming summer,” the Horicon correspondent reported in The Morning Star on June 28, 1895.

“The first guests of the season to arrive at the Palisades, Brant Lake, are T. J. Kalbfleish and family of Brooklyn. … Mrs. Kalbfleish, who is a follower of Isaac Walton, caught thirty-two pickerel on Wednesday night, weight seventy-two pounds. Miss Edna Sample caught a four-pounder the first afternoon she was there,” The Morning Star reported on July 6, 1895.

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

1887

• “The springtime has come, gentle Anna, and the snow is about four feet deep,” the Brant Lake correspondent reported in The Morning Star on March 25.

1894

• “E.H. Moon, who has been conducting a photo gallery at Brant Lake, has returned to his house here for the winter,” the Fort Edward correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Oct. 25.
• “Ice has formed on the lower end of Brant Lake and the boys are availing themselves of the opportunity of enjoying skating,” The Morning Star reported on Nov. 21.

1895

• “George Cecil, proprietor of Watch Rock Hotel, is employing a number of men bottling mineral spring water and shipping it to the city,” the Adirondack correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Jan. 31.
• “Rev. C. Murch preached a very able sermon last Sunday evening against dancing and playing cards,” the Horicon correspondent reported on Feb. 21.
• “At the annual school meeting in District №1 last night (Aug. 2), Scott Barton was elected trustee, George Carpenter clerk, and Warren Smith collector,” the Horicon correspondent reported on Aug. 10.
• “Pretty good for a five-year old. Ray Buel, while fishing with his grandfather, Joseph Coon, in the Hudson River on Monday landed three fine perch,” the South Horicon correspondent reported.

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