By: Sharp Swan This blog is inspired by the Fires of the High Peaks  exhibit, a permanent feature at the Adirondack History Museum. Our...

By: Sharp Swan This blog is inspired by the Logging the High Peaks exhibit, featured at the Adirondack History Museum in 2024. Viewing...

During the early 1870s the New York and Canada Railroad commenced construction of a rail line along the western shore of Lake Champlain...

"As Essex County goes, so goes the Nation" is a maxim that accurately captures what has happened in every Presidential election in the...

April 27, 1882.             For Essex County Sheriff Rollin L. Jenkins only one item stood out on his day’s schedule—a hanging....

Do you believe in ghosts? The Essex County Courthouse has several of them. Now I’m not writing about the spirit of abolitionist John...

Travel along Lake Street in Port Kent and it is easy to see why this hamlet became a popular location of hotels and the tourist industry....

Ever get the opportunity to visit the Adirondack Mountains National Park? Now, this is not to be confused with the New York State...

In 1936, W.J. Brown decided to take pen to paper and composed a lengthy letter to the editor of the Essex County Republican, a weekly...

On the evening of December 1, 1859 within the confines of the Charles Town, Virginia jail (now in present day West Virginia which became...

People make their mark in history in assorted manners: bravery, politics, leadership, writing, discovery, inventions and the list goes...

It is said that a picture is worth 1000 words. There’s a photograph in the Adirondack History Museum of a mustachioed man in his 20s...

In the September 21, 1950 edition of the Adirondack Record-Post recounted the story of the wayward coach. In 1919 Arthur B. Wells, summer...