LG tourism — May 1890

Some were at work and some at play on the opening day of trout season on Lake George.

“Men are at work on Green Island taking up drainage pipes and putting in new ones,” the Bolton Landing correspondent wrote in a May 1, 1890 report, published two days later in The Morning Star of Glens Falls. “The fishermen were all out today looking for trout. Some very fine ones were captured.”

S.D. Brown, owner of The Central House hotel at Lake George, and John H. Moore of French Mountain jointly leased the Vandenburgh House, near Green Island, in Bolton Landing.

“The house will be thoroughly renovated and refurbished throughout, and will be opened for the reception of guests in about two weeks,” The Morning Star reported on May 5.

Brown was to continue operating the Central House.

W. S. Tuttle bought the Mount Ferguson Hotel property on Prospect Mountain.

“He will erect a new dining room and kitchen, with additional sleeping rooms in the second story, and make other improvements,” The Morning Star reported on May 8. “Telephone communication will be established and a bus will be run to the Caldwell railway station.

The hotel, to be remodeled to accommodate 25 guests, was expected to open for the season July 1.

The Fort William Henry Hotel was expected to open on or around June 1.

“A large force of men are now at work painting and otherwise improving the building,” The Morning Star reported on May 13.

The Hotel Fenimore was set to open the week of May 19, and The Sagamore hotel at Bolton Landing on June 20.

The Steamer Horicon was set to begin runs on May 26, leaving Caldwell 9:40 a.m. and arriving at Baldwin dock in Ticonderoga at 12:50 p.m.

The return trip left Baldwin dock at 1 p.m. and arrived at Caldwell at 4:30 p.m.

“Carpenters are at work repairing the railway dock at Lake George, preparing to receive the summer visitors,” The Morning Star reported on May 23.

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