19th century Indian Lake — Gov. Flower visits

Indian Lake had a prominent vacationer in 1893.

“Governor Flower and party, who have been stopping at Indian Lake and Lewey Lake since Saturday, leave this morning for Albany,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on Oct. 5, 1893. “The party has ten live does for the state park.”

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

• “Forest fires are raging about here, destroying much valuable timber in the 15th and 17th townships, and if the dry weather continues there will be no end of damage,” The Morning Star reported on May 19, 1894.
• It was a busy tourist season at Indian Lake in 1890.

“The cottages at Indian Lake are filled to overflowing with city people, there being sixteen persons in one small cottage,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 11, 1890.

• “Another post office will soon be established in the town of Indian Lake. The site is at Hosea Locke’s, about three miles from the present office. … Mr. Locke will be the postmaster,” The Morning Star reported on Feb. 17, 1894.
• A “well-liked” North Creek hotelier was moving to Indian Lake.

“Edward McSweeney, one of our popular hotel men, is getting ready to move to Indian Lake, where he will engage in the hotel business, having bought out George H. Tripp,” the North Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on March 3, 1894.

• “Nearly 100 people passed through this place last week enroute to hotels at Blue Mountain Lake and Raquette lakes. The travel seems to be as good now as last year at this time in spite of the hard times,” the Indian Lake correspondent reported in The Morning Star on July 7, 1894.