19th century Long Lake — Physician recruitment

Long Lake recruited a physician.

“Dr. Birch of Olmstedville has accepted an offer of $1,000 (the equivalent of $35,862 in 2024 dollars) from the town of Long Lake to locate in that place,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on Nov. 17, 1894. “There are many young physicians who would be delighted at such an opportunity.”

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

• Infrastructure funding was hoped for.

“In the Assembly Friday Assemblyman Keck introduced a bill authorizing the superintendent of public works to construct a permanent bridge across Long Lake, Hamilton County,” The Morning Star reported on Feb. 19, 1895. “The sum of $20,000 (the equivalent of $743,647 in 2024 dollars) is appropriated for the work.”

• “At the recent election of Long Lake, it was decided to bond the town in the sum of $33,000 (the equivalent of $1.23 million in 2024 dollars) to build two turnpike roads from that town to a station on the Webb railway. Supervisor David Hale has negotiated for the sale of a portion of the bonds,” the Long Lake correspondent reported in The Morning Star on March 18, 1895.
• “Dennis Moynihan Jr. of Newcomb has been awarded the contract to build twenty-three miles of turnpike road in the town of Long Lake, Hamilton County,” The Morning Star reported on May 24, 1895.

The contract price was $34,000, the equivalent of $1.27 million in 2024 dollars.

“One section extends from Racquette Lake to the town of Wilmont, Herkimer County. The other begins at Long Lake and runs to Horseshoe Station, on the Webb railway. The purpose is to make the section easy of access for summer visitors coming from the Webb Railway.”

“A large number of men are employed working on the road running from this place to Horseshoe,” the Long Lake correspondent reported on May 29, 1895.

• “James Cole has been filling up his store. He has a larger stock than ever before, and is now able to please all customers,” the Long Lake correspondent reported in The Morning Star on April 24, 1895.
• “The ice is all out of the lake and navigation has been resumed,” the Long Lake correspondent reported in The Morning Star on May 11, 1895.
• “Charles Burhans of Warrensburg has arrived at this place for the season. He has a beautiful little steamer on the lake, the Naphtha, that makes three steamers on the lake,” the Long Lake correspondent reported in The Morning Star on May 16, 1895.
• “Mort Allen of Schroon Lake has commenced his lumber job back of Owls Head Mountain,” the Long Lake correspondent reported in The Morning Star on June 21, 1895. “He had two barns and a blacksmith shop burned yesterday forenoon. The fire caught in some straw back of the barn and it is thought to have originated in a smudge kindled by one of the drivers.”