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Caroga Lake

A Place Called Pauley: An Adirondack History

November 27, 2022 by Dave Waite 2 Comments

1906 Topographic Map Powley PlaceIn the autumn of 1917, the well-known hotel and sportsman’s lodge Pauley Place was torn down as part of New York’s pursuit to bring her wilderness back on the path to being forever wild. The hotel was in Arietta, one of the most remote sections of the southern Adirondacks.

This town in Hamilton County spans sixty miles of wilderness, with Caroga Lake to the south and Tupper Lake to the north. The town was so sparsely populated during those years that the 1915 census listed less than four hundred permanent residents, only one physician, and more wilderness guides than farmers. [Read more…] about A Place Called Pauley: An Adirondack History

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Adirondack Guides, Adirondacks, Arietta, Caroga Lake, East Canada Creek, Fulton County, Hamilton County, Herkimer COunty, hunting, Salisbury, Stratford

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