19th century Ti — Beaver and calico in fashion

The latest in fashion could be found in downtown Ti.

“Rowall & Shattuck have just received a choice variety of ladies beaver cloaks of the very latest styles and very elaborately trimmed,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Sept. 5, 1879.

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

• “The new road from the new iron bridge to Trout Brook is now opened to the public,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Aug. 29, 1879.
• “The hose companies of this village entered the hose contest at the County Fair at Westport yesterday. The Independents came home with third money. Well done, boys,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Sept. 19, 1879.
• “Prof. Wells will open the dancing season of Ticonderoga Friday evening, Sept. 19, in Weed’s Opera House, with a grand calico ball. … The music will be exceptionally good from his orchestra of six pieces, and to those not wishing to dance, the music alone will be well worth the price of admission,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Sept. 12, 1879. “As this is a calico dance, it is expected that ladies will dress in calico, as a rule, and we should not be surprised if there were several gentlemen richly attired in the same on that occasion.”
• “Our school opens with nearly three hundred pupils in all the departments,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Sept. 19, 1879.
• “Mr. George C. Clark is creating a newbuilding adjoining the one occupied by Mr. C. E. Pond as a tin shop. He is silent as to what business he intends to follow,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Sept. 5, 1879.
• “Mr. H. M. Bailey, marble dealer, has opened a shop in our village where he will furnish headstones and monuments at the lowest prices. He is located the first door south of the village park, in South Main Street,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Sept. 12, 1879.
• “There is not a vacant house in the village, and several more could be rented,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Sept. 19, 1879.
• “The Lewis Brothers are erecting a new blacksmith shop on Weedville Corner and on the road leading to Tuffertown. They have, we understand, already commenced work,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Sept. 19, 1879.

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