19the century Ti — No room at the schoolhouse

School classrooms were over-crowded.

“Every seat in the Higher Department of our Union School is occupied, and more pupils are nearly ready to attend,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Nov. 30, 1877. “What shall we do with them?”

The high school was not the only overcrowded school building.

“We have more pupils in all departments of our village schools than the law allows, except the branch school at the Fort,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Dec. 14, 1877.

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

• “Tuesday night and Wednesday morning the portion of the village near Wiley’s store and along the creek to the lower falls was visited by a freshet which has no precedent. Snow fell for several days last week, and Monday it turned to rain, which carried a rise in the waters of Lord Howe Brook and Lake George,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Dec. 13, 1878. “About ten o’clock Tuesday evening the water was barely over the road when it rose about eighteen inches and still rising.
• “New crosswalks in front of Hooper’s hardware store,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Nov. 30, 1877.
• “Mr. A. S. Nickerson, our gentlemanly photographer, has associated with him Mr. L. H. Fillmore, formerly of Whitehall, who is an expert in making faces, and they are now prepared to do work in their line to suit customers,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Nov. 30, 1877.

Fillmore branched out on his own about a year later.

“Fillmore, the photographer, will open his rooms, second door south of the Bailey House, tomorrow, Nov. 2.” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Nov. 1, 1878. “He has the latest sky light and the latest improved instruments and will take all kinds of pictures at the lowest prices. His experience is a guarantee of satisfaction to all his patrons.”

• “We have a dancing school in our village. Prof. J. S. Wells is the instructor,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Dec. 14, 1877.
• “Mr. D. M. Carr is building a large icehouse capable of holding 80 cords of ice,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Dec. 14, 1877. “The ice will be delivered next season to those who wish to indulge in such a luxury.”
• “Business in our woolen factory seems to be recovering. There is a greater demand for Treadway’s Cassimere’s,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Dec. 14, 1877.
• “The Clark Hose, of this village, will soon have an elegant spacious room for holding their meetings. Workmen are putting it in splendid order,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Dec. 6, 1878.
• “Nearly all the mules and horses used on the canal have gone into winter quarters at Larabee’s Point,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Dec. 13, 1878.

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