A collection of archival photos, drawings and engravings of the iron-mining settlement known as McIntyre, Adirondac or the Upper Works which later became the site of the old Tahawus Club colony.
Graphic supplement for "Tales from the Deserted Village" (Part 3 of 3)Lee Manchester
A collection of archival photos, drawings and engravings of the iron-mining settlement known as McIntyre, Adirondac or the Upper Works which later became the site of the old Tahawus Club colony.
Graphic supplement for "Tales from the Deserted Village" (Part 3 of 3)Lee Manchester
A collection of archival photos, drawings and engravings of the iron-mining settlement known as McIntyre, Adirondac or the Upper Works which later became the site of the old Tahawus Club colony.
Graphic supplement for "Tales from the Deserted Village" (Part 1 of 3)Lee Manchester
A collection of archival photos, drawings and engravings of the iron-mining settlement known as McIntyre, Adirondac or the Upper Works which later became the site of the old Tahawus Club colony.
This is the first volume in the Deserted Village series about the McIntyre iron works and the Tahawus Club in Newcomb township, Essex County, New York. This volume contains 25 19th century accounts of visitors to the site, starting with David Henderson's discovery in 1826 and ending with an 1896 ghost story by Henry van Hoevenberg of Adirondack Lodge fame. To order a bound, print copy, go to http://stores.lulu.com/desertedvillage
Graphic supplement for "Tales from the Deserted Village" (Part 1 of 3)Lee Manchester
A collection of archival photos, drawings and engravings of the iron-mining settlement known as McIntyre, Adirondac or the Upper Works which later became the site of the old Tahawus Club colony.
This is the first volume in the Deserted Village series about the McIntyre iron works and the Tahawus Club in Newcomb township, Essex County, New York. This volume contains 25 19th century accounts of visitors to the site, starting with David Henderson's discovery in 1826 and ending with an 1896 ghost story by Henry van Hoevenberg of Adirondack Lodge fame. To order a bound, print copy, go to http://stores.lulu.com/desertedvillage
ANNALS contains all of the important 20th century summaries, surveys and studies of the McIntyre iron settlement and the old Tahawus Club colony in Newcomb township, Essex County, New York. PART ONE includes the introductory notes, the summaries of Alfred Donaldson, Harold Hochschild and Mary MacKenzie, and Arthur Masten's "Story of Adirondac" (with original photos).
The Cowpastures, Just like an English landscapeIan Willis
The early colonial European settlers in the Cowpastures were the key players in the story of creating
an English-style landscape along the Nepean River. The settlers took possession of the countryside
from the Dharawal Aboriginal people and re-made it in their own vision of the world. They
constructed a cultural landscape made up of an idealised vision of what they had left behind in the
‘Old Country’. For the European settlers the new continent, and particularly the bush, had the
elements of the Gothic with its grotesque and the demonic, and the English-style landscape
aesthetic they created was one attempt to counter these forces. Settlers used the aesthetic to assist
the creation of a new story on an apparently blank slate and in the process dispossessed and
displaced the Indigenous occupants. The new landscape was characterised by English placenames,
English farming methods and English settlement patterns, with only cursory acknowledgement of
Indigenous occupation. The early settlers had such a profound impact on the countryside that their
legacy is still clearly identifiable today even after 200 years.
Photos from the Plains of Abraham (Part 1 of 2)Lee Manchester
This is the largest, most comprehensive collection in existence of images depicting the history of Lake Placid, consisting of the 333 historic slides compiled by the late public historian Mary MacKenzie, digitally restored by Lee Manchester. TO PURCHASE A BOUND, PRINT EDITION, GO TO http://stores.lulu.com/marymackenzie
Yet more from the Deserted Village (Part 1 of 3)Lee Manchester
This is Lee Manchester's third and final collection of source materials and significant articles published about the McIntyre iron works in Newcomb township, Essex County, New York. It contains facsimiles of three company sales prospectuses (1840, 1851 and 1854), an account of an 1853 visit to the works, an 1874 travel-guide description of the property, a remembrance of John Cheney by a Tahawus Club member, three articles about the Jersey City steel industry, several Essex County newspaper articles from the 1940s, a series from the National Lead Co. magazine "Cloudsplitter," a summary article by Bruce Seely about his landmark study of the works, and a recounting of the restoration of the MacNaughton Cottage and the New Furnace by Janet Null. THIS IS PART 1 OF 3
Yet more from the Deserted Village (Part 3 of 3)Lee Manchester
This is Lee Manchester's third and final collection of source materials and significant articles published about the McIntyre iron works in Newcomb township, Essex County, New York. It contains facsimiles of three company sales prospectuses (1840, 1851 and 1854), an account of an 1853 visit to the works, an 1874 travel-guide description of the property, a remembrance of John Cheney by a Tahawus Club member, three articles about the Jersey City steel industry, several Essex County newspaper articles from the 1940s, a series from the National Lead Co. magazine "Cloudsplitter," a summary article by Bruce Seely about his landmark study of the works, and a recounting of the restoration of the MacNaughton Cottage and the New Furnace by Janet Null. THIS IS PART 3 OF 3
Yet more from the Deserted Village (Part 2 of 3)Lee Manchester
This is Lee Manchester's third and final collection of source materials and significant articles published about the McIntyre iron works in Newcomb township, Essex County, New York. It contains facsimiles of three company sales prospectuses (1840, 1851 and 1854), an account of an 1853 visit to the works, an 1874 travel-guide description of the property, a remembrance of John Cheney by a Tahawus Club member, three articles about the Jersey City steel industry, several Essex County newspaper articles from the 1940s, a series from the National Lead Co. magazine "Cloudsplitter," a summary article by Bruce Seely about his landmark study of the works, and a recounting of the restoration of the MacNaughton Cottage and the New Furnace by Janet Null. THIS IS PART 2 OF 3
The Plains of Abraham: A History of North Elba and Lake PlacidLee Manchester
COLLECTED WRITINGS OF MARY MacKENZIE
EDITED BY LEE MANCHESTER
For many, many years Mary MacKenzie, official historian of the Adirondack town of North Elba and the village of Lake Placid, New York, cherished the dream of writing a comprehensive history of her home community. She began work on the project in the early 1960s. By the time she died in 2003, however, her dream had not been realized.
MacKenzie’s family recruited local author Lee Manchester to serve as the historian’s literary executor, combing through the files Mary had transferred to the Lake Placid Public Library and gathering as many of her magazine and newspaper articles, letters, lectures and unpublished essays as possible. The resulting volume is a close facsimile of the sweeping, comprehensive history MacKenzie had so long envisioned.
In 2008, “The Plains of Abraham” won the Adirondack Literary Awards’ first-ever Special Appreciation Award, given at the annual program in Blue Mountain Lake. According to one of the judges, the unique award was bestowed in recognition of the book’s long-term importance to Adirondack literature:
“This is more than just an important book for this year. People will be reading and appreciating this book 100 years from now. Adirondack Park residents and visitors owe Manchester a great debt of gratitude for this extraordinary project.”
“The Plains of Abraham” was first published by Nicholas K. Burns Publishing of Utica, New York, in 2007. Shortly after the book’s launch, however, the publisher went out of business. To ensure that this treasure trove of public history continues to be available to the community for which it was created, the Lake Placid Public Library has reissued the book in a new, print-on-demand edition. It is one of the five volumes compiled as part the Mary MacKenzie Project, all of which are available from the project’s online storefront (http://stores.LuLu.com/MaryMacKenzie).
The work of three historians — Mary MacKenzie, Lee Manchester and Janet Null — has been combined in this survey of the historic architecture of Main Street, Lake Placid, in the heart of New York's Adirondacks. Rich in both current and archival photographs, the book includes a section of comparative streetscape images, placing full-page archival shots side-by-side with current views of the Olympic Village. TO PURCHASE A BOUND, PRINTED EDITION, GO TO http://stores.lulu.com/marymackenzie
The work of three historians — Mary MacKenzie, Lee Manchester and Janet Null — has been combined in this survey of the historic architecture of Main Street, Lake Placid, in the heart of New York's Adirondacks. Rich in both current and archival photographs, the book includes a section of comparative streetscape images, placing full-page archival shots side-by-side with current views of the Olympic Village. TO PURCHASE A BOUND, PRINTED EDITION, GO TO http://stores.lulu.com/marymackenzie
“The Plains of Abraham: A History of North Elba and Lake Placid — Collected Writings of Mary MacKenzie” was published in 2007 by Nicholas K. Burns Publishing, a one-man publishing house in Utica, New York. When the book finally went to press, much of the material gathered from the late Mrs. MacKenzie’s files by editor Lee Manchester had to be put aside to keep the volume from becoming too big to print; even so, “The Plains of Abraham” ran to more than 400 pages in length. Rather than leave completely aside the rest of the material that had been edited for “The Plains of Abraham,” Manchester decided to make it available in a small, paperback edition. TO PURCHASE A BOUND, PRINT EDITION, GO TO http://stores.lulu.com/marymackenzie
Photos from the Plains of Abraham (Part 2 of 2)Lee Manchester
This is the largest, most comprehensive collection in existence of images depicting the history of Lake Placid, consisting of the 333 historic slides compiled by the late public historian Mary MacKenzie, digitally restored by Lee Manchester. TO PURCHASE A BOUND, PRINT EDITION, GO TO http://stores.lulu.com/marymackenzie
When Lake Placid historian Mary MacKenzie died in 2003, her family discovered a cache of fine poetry she had kept hidden since the 1930s. The collection, first published under MacKenzie's maiden name of Mary C. Landon by the Adirondack literary magazine Blueline in 2005, is now available for a general audience. TO ORDER A BOUND, PRINTED EDITION, GO TO http://stores.lulu.com/marymackenzie
Plenty of books have been written about hiking the heavily traveled trails of New York’s Adirondack Park.
This is not one of them.
“Adventures in the New Wilderness” contains essays on the exploration of some little-known paths in the High Peaks region of Essex County — the ancient, abandoned road between Wilmington and Lake Placid; the old trails around Placid Lake, rarely used by anyone anymore; the tracks up Essex County’s lonely fire-tower mountains, where you’ll find some of the most spectacular (but least known) views of the High Peaks; and journeys into the cold, pristine world of the Adirondack woods in winter.
TO ORDER A BOUND, PRINT EDITION, GO TO http://stores.lulu.com/leemanchester
“Adirondack Heritage” is an anthology of stories about the history and historic sites of the Adirondacks, especially Essex County, by former Lake Placid News writer Lee Manchester. The collection is laid out in five sections. “The Historic Olympic Region” focuses on two towns united by the Winter Olympic Games of 1932 and 1980: Lake Placid and Wilmington. “Historic Essex County & Beyond” covers the Town of Jay and seven other Essex County communities, a scattering of one-room schoolhouses, and a dozen historic and cultural sites. “Adirondac” looks at the 19th century iron-mining ghost town in the Town of Newcomb alternately known as "the Deserted Village," Tahawus, the Upper Works, McIntyre, or Adirondac. “Historic Preservation, Adirondack-Style” highlights the work of Adirondack Architectural Heritage, dedicated to preserving and interpreting the historic architecture of the Adirondacks. “John Brown’s Farm & The Underground Railroad” tells the tale of North Elba’s own John Brown, the radical abolitionist who met his fate in Harper’s Ferry. It also debunks various misbegotten tales about “Timbuctoo,” North Elba’s famous Black colony, and John Brown’s supposed Underground Railroad station in North Elba. TO PURCHASE A BOUND, PRINT EDITION, GO TO http://stores.lulu.com/leemanchester
On the morning of January 1, 2002, the wrecking ball swung into the brick exterior of the Agora Wing, the last surviving vestige of the old Lake Placid Club. As the Club came down, memories arose across the North Country of its former grandeur, its role in creating winter sport and two Olympic Winter Games, and its place as the employer of thousands of area residents. People also recalled its long slide downhill, beginning during the Depression, and ending in 1980 in United States Bankruptcy Court. This book retells the story of the Lake Placid Club, as it appeared in a series written for the Lake Placid News and the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. TO PURCHASE A PRINTED, BOUND EDITION, GO TO http://stores.lulu.com/leemanchester
ANNALS contains all of the important 20th century summaries, surveys and studies of the McIntyre iron settlement and the old Tahawus Club colony in Newcomb township, Essex County, New York. PART FOUR includes Wesley Haynes' 1994 documentation report on the Adirondack Iron & Steel Company site (including his extensive documentation photos of all the buildings then standing on the site), PLUS five site visit reports by Richard Sanders Allen (1968), Victor Rolando (1974), Doris Vanderlip Manley (1976), Duncan Hay (1978) and James P. Gold et al. (1989).
ANNALS contains all of the important 20th century summaries, surveys and studies of the McIntyre iron settlement and the old Tahawus Club colony in Newcomb township, Essex County, New York. PART THREE contains Bruce Seely's landmark 1978 study, "Adirondack Iron and
Steel Company:
New Furnace, 1849-1854," complete with original photos and drawings.
ANNALS contains all of the important 20th century summaries, surveys and studies of the McIntyre iron settlement and the old Tahawus Club colony in Newcomb township, Essex County, New York. PART TWO contains Arthur Masten's "Tahawus Club, 1898-1933" (with original photos).
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10. Mountain View House (Scott’s; Ames’) A well-known hostelry on the Plains of Abraham in the town of North Elba, north of the Indian Pass, that figures in several of the entries in “Tales from the Deserted Village.”
11. Engraving from Seneca Ray Stoddard’s Adirondacks Illustrated, 1881 edition. Mountain View House, also known as Scott’s and Ames’, was spoken of at some length in several pieces included in the anthology.
12. The first of two photographs from a promotional brochure for the Mountain View House. This photo is labeled in a way similar to that used by Seneca Ray Stoddard. The label appears to say, “Mose Ames House, North Elba, Adirondack.”
13. A second photo from the Mountain View House brochure, this one credited to the Troy Times.
15. An engineering diagram of the “New Furnace,” built in 1854, from the Historic American Engineering Record study of the McIntyre iron works (1978)
16. A pencil sketch by Benson J. Lossing of the New Furnace, completely enclosed in a building above and below. The sketch was made in 1859, after the McIntyre works had been shut down for less than a year.
17. An 1886 photo by Edward Bierstadt, shows the buildings enclosing the New Furnace, both above and below, completely gone, but the charging bridge still partially intact.
18. A photo taken by Seneca Ray Stoddard in 1888, two years after the Bierstadt photo, also shows the charging bridge still partially intact, along with the framework and roof surrounding the wheelhouse on the Hudson River below.
19. A photograph from the Tahawus Club collection (ca. 1900, used in the 1978 HAER report) shows even the charging bridge for the New Furnace gone, twelve years after Stoddard’s photo was taken (debris appears to lie on the ground on the left side of the photo), but a portion of the wheelhouse (at right) apparently still intact. Note that all five stacks at the top of the furnace tower are intact in this photo.
20. This diagram from the 1978 HAER report shows how the wheelhouse worked, where pistons forced air into a pipe to feed oxygen to the blast furnace.
21. The remains of the gear pit, as Jet Lowe’s camera found it in 1978.
23. A 1978 image taken by HAER photographer Jet Lowe from the east shows the New Furnace tower, sans stacks, in a condition very similar to that in which it may be found today.
24. Another Jet Lowe photo from the 1978 HAER study shows the New Furnace as seen through a wide-angle lens.
26. In addition to images of many of the authors whose work is contained in this anthology, we have access to engravings or photos of several key players in our Tales from the Deserted Village. Here is an engraving of Archibald McIntyre, published in the September 25, 1891 issue of the Plattsburgh Sentinel .
27. This charcoal drawing shows Sabael, the father of Lewis Elijah Benedict, the Indian guide who led the David Henderson party from North Elba through Indian Pass to the Iron Dam at what later became the McIntyre iron plantation, also known as Adirondac or the Upper Works. It was Sabael who actually discovered the vast iron lode lying at the source of the Hudson River, although it was his son who brought the Henderson party to it. Sabael is sometimes mistakenly called “Sabael Benedict,” though the last name was one that his son Lewis Elijah took for himself from the geologist, Professor Farrand N. Benedict of the University of Vermont, for whom he served as guide.
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29. John Brown, the hero of Richard Henry Dana Jr.’s second (and partially fictionalized) account of his visit to the Deserted Village. This image is an 1856 engraving made from a daguerrotype, contained in the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
30. Besides David Henderson and Archibald McIntyre, the one recurring character in most of the narratives in our anthology is McIntyre guide John Cheney, pictured (above left) in an engraving made around 1873 by Seneca Ray Stoddard from a photo provided by Cheney. Above right, Cheney’s headstone can be found standing in the Newcomb cemetery.
31. Mills Blake, lifelong friend of Adirondack Survey superintendent Verplanck Colvin. Blake was the last person known to possess a copy of the unpublished Colvin manuscript from which his literary description of the discovery of Lake Tear-of-the-Clouds, contained in this anthology, was taken. The manuscript can no longer be found, and may have been destroyed by Blake.
32. Two images of Native American guide Mitchell Sabattis. Left, an unattributed photograph. Above, an engraving from a drawing by Benson J. Lossing, 1859.
33. Reuben Sanford, founding father of the town of Wilmington on the north side of the High Peaks, in an engraving from the February 12, 1903 issue of the Elizabethtown Post. Sanford surveyed much of the lands purchased by the McIntyre company around the Deserted Village. It was for him that Lake Sanford was named.
34. William B. “Bill” Nye (1816-1893), renowned Adirondack guide from North Elba, in a Seneca Ray Stoddard photo dated September 16, 1878. Just five years earlier, in 1873, Nye was accompanying Verplanck Colvin when they discovered Lake Tear-of-the-Clouds, the highest source of the waters that feed into the Hudson River.
36. Benson J. Lossing’s 1859 drawing shows Adirondac’s famous “iron dam,” immediately below which stood the iron works’ sawmill and, later, the schoolhouse-cum-trout hatchery.
37. An unattributed, undated sketch shows Adirondac’s former schoolhouse and church, here apparently relocated from the hamlet’s main (only!) street to the banks of the Hudson, where the Adirondack Club used the building for a trout hatchery. (Sketch from Arthur Masten’s Story of Adirondac)
38. An unattributed, undated photo from the 1978 HAER report shows the Adirondac sawmill, situated on the Hudson River adjacent to the site where the schoolhouse was eventually relocated.
39. The former “Church of Tubal Cain,” aka the Adirondac schoolhouse, shown here in a photo taken by Tahawus Club member Norman Foote around 1910. Next to the “church,” used as a fish hatchery by the Adirondack/Tahawus Club, is the McIntyre iron works’ old sawmill. Immediately upstream is the famous “iron dam.” (Photo from the Adirondack Museum)
40. A picture postcard, postmarked “Tahawus N.Y., July 23, 1914,” shows the schoolhouse/church, sawmill and iron dam, with several Tahawus Club cottages visible behind them. (Courtesy Newcomb Historical Society)