19th century Johnsburg — Ice train

Ice harvesting was winding down and politics simmering at Johnsburg.

“The heaviest train of cars of the season left North Creek last Sunday — nineteen cars loaded with ice, with two engines and passenger cars. It really looked like business,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on March 20, 1890. “The political cauldron has not begun to boil yet. Still, we have heard Dr. J.S. Fuller’s and Embury Moston’s names mentioned for supervisor. Both are good men.”

Following are more 19th century Johnsburg news items collected from historic news papers of the region:

• The people of Wevertown celebrated an infrastructure improvement.

“Our new little bridge over the creek is a decided improvement to the appearance of our little village,” the Wevertown correspondent to The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on Jan. 3, 1890.

• “Bark is coming to our tannery in a rush. Some thirty teams are employed by the tannery company,” the North Creek correspondent reported March 1, 1889 in The Morning Star.
• On Jan. 3, 1890, The Morning Star reported that a new chimney was being constructed on the roof of the Johnsburg Methodist Episcopal Church.