Century-old Ti — Wild forest in the making

This is the latest in a series of posts about news reported a century ago in the Ticonderoga Sentinel.

White and Norway pine and spruce trees that American Steel & Wire Co. had planted at the former Hammondville mining site in Crown Point were “making a satisfactory growth,” demonstrating the potential for the area to be reclaimed as a wild forest.

“Some of them have grown from a foot to eighteen inches this year, now measuring to five feet in height,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Aug. 20, 1920.

At its peak, Hammondville had about 700 residents and about 4,000 people worked in its mines and railroad before its iron ore deposits were depleted in the 1890s.

“It will not be many years before this once bustling mining town will be a wilderness.”

Elsewhere in Crown Point, Bicycle Street was renamed Merchants Row.

“As there have been two new stores opened on this street during the past six months, and a possibility of more opening during the next six months, we think that Merchants Row is the most appropriate name that could be our street,” the Crown Point correspondent reported. “We hope that the change will be agreeable to all.”

In other Aug. 26, 1920 Ticonderoga Sentinel news:

The August issue of The Etude magazine published an article by S.A. Weaver about “The Relative Value of Violins.”

Ticonderoga Elks lodge members Herbert Wheeler, J.F. Gunning, H.F. Huestis and J.H. Arthur attended the Plattsburgh Elks clam bake at Rouses Point on Aug. 19.

Click here to read the most recent previous post in the series.