19th century Ti — Transportation season

It was the start of another transportation season.

“The Lake Champlain Navigation Company will commence running the steamer Vermont from Plattsburgh to Ticonderoga June 9, at which date the morning train will be run to Ticonderoga to connect with the boat, as in former seasons,” the Elizabethtown Post & Gazette reported on May 22, 1879. “The same day the steamer Ganoushe will commence running from Lake George to Baldwin (dock in Ticonderoga), in connection with the stage from Glens Falls.”

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

1875

• “The 19th of July the new hotel at Rogers Rock was quietly thrown open to the public. Though late in the season when opened, there are now a good number of regular boarders,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Aug. 6.

J. Q. A. Treadway was the operator and O. B. Hinchly the architect.

Each floor had hot and cold running water.

“The direct management of the institution is in the hands of T. J. Treadway, and well does he do his duty. A sister of the proprietors, Mrs. Steele, is the lady of the household and the perfect order and system speaks in strong terms of her ability.”

1879

• “$200 (the equivalent of $6,290 in 2024 dollars) was raised by the M. E. (Methodist Episcopal) Church of Plattsburgh to aid in lifting the debt of the Ticonderoga church,” the Elizabethtown Post & Gazette reported on Oct. 30.
• “Mr. Heart, our popular merchant tailor, has left us and located at Ti,” the Crown Point Centre correspondent reported in the Post & Gazette on Nov. 13. “We regret to lose him, and his Port Henry patrons offered him strong inducements to return there, but Ti got him.”

1880

• “The Rev. William Gussman of New Haven, Conn., has accepted a call to the Baptist church at this place. He will commence his pastorate on Sunday, the 29th of this month,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Nov. 12.
• “J. A. Fleming has just received another invoice of German canaries and goldfinches at his drug store on Exchange Street. They are excellent singers, and those who contemplate purchasing rare birds should give him a call,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Nov. 12.
• “Twenty tons of paper pulp per day are turned out every 24 hours by the three pulp mills now in operation in Ticonderoga,” the Elizabethtown Post & Gazette reported on Jan. 28.
• “The Burleigh House of Ticonderoga has been leased by W. C. French, and will be opened May 1st with W. C. French, general manager. … A free bus will be run to Addison Junction by the hotel to connect with all trains,” the Post & Gazette reported on April 8.

1881

• “About seventy-five couples participated in the light fantastic (a lively dance) at the Burleigh House on Tuesday evening. Music: Fred Austin’s Band,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Jan. 14.

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