North Creek, once the garnet train...

Gore Mountain, Peaceful Valley Road, North Creek, NY 12853 and on the official archives of the National Park Service, (Dept. of the Interior, for whom I've worked for in PA, MD, AK, and NY) National Register of Historic Places, Warren County, NY North Creek Railroad, across the street from the Main Street property is: 38 North Creek Railroad Station Complex Railroad Pl. North Creek 1976-08-27 (put on the Register) There is much info online, including some constructed maps from other resources. After many transactions, Waddell acquires the Durant properties, the man who brought the railroad to North Creek in 1871. Durant helped created the US Transcontinental railroad, and was late for the "Golden Spike" and the photo of the event is composed a short time after the actual joining of the railroad (so is Iwo Jima famous flag composition, after the fact). The National Map online (USGS) shows perhaps (at 1 meter resolution now available) the former dirt road the cattle etc., may have been also brought in by rail. I haven't however been able to get to the bottom of "Bennetts Field" the local airstrip. In Warrensburg, Floyd Bennett was born, who accompanied Admiral Byrd to the North Pole, died of influenza trying to rescue the "Bremen" aircrash in Greenland, buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn in named after him (about 1000 acres of former marsh and islands) and there is a plaque in Warrensburg, NY town green dedicated to him. I'm not sure if he used to fly to North Creek, being close, or they named it after him. Maybe he learned to fly there too back before 1917, when he is listed as formally flying. ...I was just in the middle of figuring out the Henry Ford once wanted (in the 1920's) started titanium mines that ore was taken too North Creek to, for WWII tank camouflage and other uses, when the US government built a R.R. from there to the mines at Tahawas, after the roads were falling apart for "2.5 million" became at least 4.5 million, under the disguise of a "Lead company". NY State lost and won safety compliance at rail crossings with the US owned railroad. Another group sued over the impacts on the Adirondacks, the titanium mine at Sanford Lake, near the former McEntyre Iron mines, that resource, a "titaniferous magnitite" ore, shown to by a "Canadian Indian", Louis Elijah, who found a solid dam of iron water flowed over, around 1815(?), it was reported that the new mining community was to be named after him. Also, "According to historian G.H. Smith, an Indian of the tribe of St. Francis...by way of Indian Pass." It's not far from Mt. Marcy, NY's highest point.