19th Century Ti — Feeding the Weedville multitude

Eighteen chickens were needed to feed the multitude.

“The citizens of Weedville held their 21st annual picnic on the flats near the mouth of Trout Brook on … Oct. 3,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Oct. 10, 1879. “Fifty-two persons were present. After the picnic a chowder of 18 chickens was arranged in good style, of which all partook.”

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

• “The Horicon Iron Company’s new works for the manufacture of refined bar iron are in active operation. The improved methods of President Cyrus Butler and Superintendent Wm. Hooper have resulted in the production of a grade of iron claimed to be superior to any of the kind manufactured in the world,” the Ticonderoga correspondent reported in the Elizabethtown Post & Gazette on May 15, 1879. “The iron used is from the mines of the Crown Point Iron Company, noted for its purity.”
• “There have been six deaths from diphtheria in Tuffertown recently,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Oct. 10, 1879.
• “The entertainment given on Tuesday evening by the young people of the Baptist Society for the benefit of their Sabbath School was a great success. Little Red Riding Hood was well rendered, and we congratulate the little folks on their success,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Oct. 10, 1879. “The tables were loaded with good things — the ice cream, fruit and other eatables were delicious. The net proceeds were $36.16 (the equivalent of $1,136 in 2024 dollars).”
• “Nut gathering is the pastime of the little folks. Butternuts and hickory nuts in abundance,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Oct. 10, 1879.
• “Several fine pickerel have been seen on our streets this past week, caught in Lake George,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Oct. 17, 1879.
• “Pel. C. Arthur has opened a billiard parlor in the building just west of the Burleigh House, the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Oct. 17, 1879.
• “There is a barge in process of construction at the Cossey shipyard. It will probably be launched in the spring,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Oct. 17, 1879.
• “Our band is doing well. Ed knows how to lead them, and, with a little encouragement from our citizens, there will soon be music in the air,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Oct. 17, 1879.
• “Between 2,000 and 3,000 bushels of apples have been manufactured into cider at Adkins’ mill thus far this season, and the mill is yet full,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Oct. 31, 1879.
• “The new streetlamp erected at the corner near Bennet and Cook’s drug store is a beauty, and is a decided improvement,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Oct. 31, 1879. Let others be erected. The expense is not enormous, and the accommodation to the public is immense.”
• “Ticonderoga possesses one of the best water-powers, the outlet of Lake George, in the state,” the Elizabethtown Post and Gazette reported on May 1, 1879.

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