Adirondack Photos and Postcards

A 1920s Visit to Raquette Lake

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The only way to get your vehicle to Raquette Lake Privet hedge blocked sight of work boats from hotel guests Huge four-story hotel in village

Car Ferry from Forked Lake

8 miles to Village

 Family

Raquette Lake House

1903 - 1927
Best part of the vacation 'Killoquah' leaving clouds of steam A trip to Blue Mountain was 'de rigueur'
Brothers trying guideboat

Steamer Killoquah No. 2

leaving the Village

Blue Mountain

courtesy Regina Ziemann

 

Early in the 21st century two sisters were browsing through an antique shop on the main street of Cazenovia, NY, and came upon a set of over-sized negatives - for just fifty cents!  The one mark of identification was the name "Raquette Lake House" on the third floor of the large hotel where the family stayed.

After much searching, the sisters found a photographer able to work with the huge format used in the 1920s.  The places in the photos matched some of the sites pictured in books they later found in the Raquette Lake Library.

They mentioned their discovery on an Adirondack Museum message board dedicated to children's camps in the area, and graciously agreed to allow us to share the photographs with visitors to our web site.

 

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2006-08-19 10:15:21