Windows Live Link to North Creek, NY

North Creek Railroad Depot

Where after a series of night-time buckboard rides down from Tahawas, near Mt. Marcy, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt read the telegram that informed him, that after eight days, President McKinley had died. He had been shot at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY by an anarchist. The President boarded a special train here for Buffalo, NY where he was officially sworn in.

Photos are of North Creek Depot and WorldWind 1.3 NASA 3D from USGS orthophotos in the vicinity of the depot. The white house is gone from the corner as many of the nearby trees there. Nearby is Bennett's airfield, perhaps named after Floyd Bennett? He was born nearby in Warrensburg, NY. The first commercial airfield in NYC was named after him, in Brooklyn, Floyd Bennett Field is now part of the U.S. Gateway National Recreation Area in NY/NJ. Pilot John Glenn once set a transcontinental jet record to or from there, later set records as an astronaut and elected U.S. Senator from Ohio, and an astronaut again on the Space Shuttle. However until the road improvements in the 1930's, horse drawn vehicles left North Creek for Indian Lake, and a stagecoach was running in the early 20th century. I recently found what might have been the factory remains associated with the slaughterhouse, which supplied many of the Adirondack hotels and retreats there as described in the local history of North Creek, originally started in the 1850's as a center for tanning due to the abundance of hemlock trees. Its railhead came with the transcontinental railroad builders and that tanning industry continued until the hemlock bark ran out in the 1880's. Some of the earliest organized skiing occured in North Creek, as trucks and buses took skiers up to the garnet mines where they skied down into the hamlet and rode back up. Trains from NYC left with Saks 5th Avenue and Wall Street ski groups on the train to North Creek, and others also came from around the State. Ski lifts developed to replace the trucking around the mountain, when someone hooked up a V-8 driven wheel and rope, and lifts followed and eventually Gore Mountain opened. However, the large facility has isolated the hamlet's historic ski bowl and urging New York State with a petition to recreate the Ski Bowl by connecting it with the mountain, opening old trails and with minor changes connecting to the new ones of Gore Mountain, which has made snow from the Hudson River, only about forty miles from its source in the "Tear in the Clouds". Associated construction would follow from willing investment which thinks more New Yorkers would come to North Creek instead of spending their money in "nearby" Vermont ski centers. Windows Live Link (Google has yet to show higher resolution for this area around Gore Mountain)