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Communities and Preserves

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Ackerman, David H., Lake Placid Club, 1895-1980: An Illustrated History, Lake Placid, N.Y.: Lake Placid Educational Foundation, 1998

Ackerman, David H., ed., Placid Lake: A Centennial History 1893-1993, Lake Placid, N.Y.: Shore Owners’ Association of Lake Placid, 1994

Adcock, Frederick T., and Cynthia E. Adcock, Piseco Lake and Arietta, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2008

Andrews, Elizabeth Courtier, “Creating Summer Place: The Transformation of Keene Valley, New York 1850- 1910,” M.A. thesis, Columbia University, 1988

A Past to Remember: A Future to Mould, Saranac Lake, New York, Saranac Lake, N.Y.: Women’s Civic Chamber, 1977

Bartley, Margaret, “With Sky for a Front Yard: The Cliff-Hanging Camps of the Boquet River Valley,” Adirondack Life 23:7 (2002), 40-51, 76-79

Barlow, Jane A. ed., Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks: The Story of the Lake, the Land, and the People, Syracuse: Big Moose Lake History Project, Syracuse University Press, 2004

Bauerschmidt, Shawn R., Star Lake, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2006

Boas, Norman Francis, and Barbara Linton Meyer, Alma Farm: An Adirondack Meeting Place, Mystic Conn., and Bolton Landing, N.Y.: by the authors, 1999

Caldwell, Mark, Saranac Lake: Pioneer Health Resort, Saranac Lake, N.Y.: Historic Saranac Lake, 1993

Centennial Scrapbook of Crater Club Camps, Essex, N.Y.: Camp History Committee, Crater Club, July 1999

Cohen, Linda, et al., Old Forge: Gateway to the Adirondacks, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2003

Collins, Geraldine, The Brighton Story: Being the History of Paul Smith’s, Gabriels and Rainbow Lake, Lakemont, N.Y.: North Country Books, 1977

Comstock, Edward, Jr., ed., The Adirondack League Club, 1890-1990, Old Forge: N.Y.: Adirondack League Club, 1990

Corbett, Theodore, The Making of American Resorts: Saratoga Springs, Ballston Spa, Lake George, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2001

Deker, Randy, The Sacandaga Valley, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2000

Desormo, Maitland C., Summers on the Saranacs, Saranac Lake, N.Y.: Adirondack Yesteryears, 1980

Dietz, Karen Ann, “A Home in the Woods: Summer Life in the Adirondacks,” Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1992 [camps in the Fulton Chain]

Edmonds, Adrian, Recollections of an Adirondacker, Volume 1, Stories of a Keene Valley House, Keene Valley, N.Y.: Keene Valley Library Association, 2005

Essex, New York, An Early History, Essex: Belden Noble Memorial Library, 2003

Fennessy, Lana, The History of Newcomb, Newcomb, N.Y.: by the author, 1996

Gates, William Preston, Old Bolton on Lake George, NY, Queensbury, N.Y.: by the author, 2006

Gosselink, Charles C., Benjamin Van Buren’s Bay, Silver Bay, N.Y.: Boathouse Books, 2002

Grady, Joseph F., The Adirondacks: Fulton Chain-Big Moose Region: The Story of a Wilderness, Little Falls, N.Y.: Press of the Journal & Courier Co., 1933

Hadley-Luzerne Historical Society, Hadley and Lake Luzerne, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2002

Halm, Gale J., and Mary H. Sharp, Lake George, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2000

Hislop, David Conrad, Essex on Lake Champlain, Charleston, S.C: Arcadia, 2009

Hislop, David Conrad, “One of the Most Architecturally and Culturally Significant Greek Revival Villages in America: Essex, New York,” M.A. thesis, Goucher College, 2002

Hochschild, Harold K., Adirondack Railroads, Real and Phantom, Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y.: Adirondack Museum, 1962

Hochschild, Harold K., An Adirondack Resort in the Nineteenth Century: Blue Mountain Lake, 1870-1900, Stagecoaches and Luxury Hotels, Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y.: Adirondack Museum, 1962

Hochschild, Harold K., Life and Leisure in the Adirondack Backwoods, Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y.: Adirondack Museum, 1962 [Raquette Lake]

Holt, Charles, Adirondack Frontier Stories of Keene Flats after 1776, Elizabethtown, N.Y.: Denton Publications, 1976

Hooker, Mildred Phelps Stokes, Camp Chronicles, Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y.: Adirondack Museum, 1964 [Upper St. Regis]

Hotaling, Mary B., “John Bird Burnham’s Crater Club,” Newsletter, Adirondack Architectural Heritage, 8 (June 1999), 1, 3

Hutchins, Conrad, et al., comps., Elizabethtown, N.Y.: Bicentennial Celebration, June 27, 1998, Elizabethtown, N.Y: by the town, 1998

LaForest, James J., and Ann L. LaForest, Along the Cedar River, n. p.: by the authors, 2004

MacKenzie, Mary, Lake Placid and North Elba: A History 1800-2000, Lake Placid: Bookstore Plus, 2002

McMartin, Barbara, Caroga: An Adirondack Town Recalls Its Past, 1976, reprint ed., Caroga, N.Y.: Town of Caroga, 1998

Masters, Raymond D., A Social History of the Huntington Wild Forest, Utica: North Country Books, 1993

Pell, Robin, Keene Valley: The Landscape and Its Artists, New York: Gerald Peters Gallery, 1994

Penney, John M., ed., Saranac Lake, New York: “The Little City” in the Adirondacks, Saranac Lake, N.Y.: 1992 Centennial Committee, 1992

Pilcher, Edith, Up the Lake Road: The First Hundred Years of the Adirondack Mountain Reserve, Keene Valley, N.Y.: Adirondack Mountain Reserve, 1987

Plunz, Richard, ed., Two Adirondack Hamlets in History: Keene and Keene Valley, Fleischmans, N.Y.: Purple Mountain Press, and Keene Valley, N.Y.: Keene Valley Library Association, 1999

Reiff, Daniel D., Historic Camps of Mt. Arab and Eagle Crag Lakes, N.Y.: Mount Arab Preserve Association, 1995

Rinehart, Victoria E., Portrait of Healing: Caring in the Woods, Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium – Trudeau Sanitorium 1884-1954, Utica, N.Y.: North Country Books, 2002

Scheffler, William L., and Frank Carey, Big Moose Lake, New York in Vintage Postcards, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2000

Silver Bay Association: A Pictorial History 1900-1935, Silver Bay, N.Y.: Silver Bay Association, 1992

Smeby, Susan Thomas, Cranberry Lake and Wanakena, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2002

Stansfield, Dean S., Lake Placid, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2002

Stansfield, Dean S., North Elba and Whiteface Mountain, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2003

Timm, Ruth, Raquette Lake: A Time to Remember, Utica: North Country Books, 1989

Westbrook, Nicholas, “Ticonderoga in Print: Prints from the Fort Ticonderoga Museum Collection,” Imprint, Journal of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, 26 (spring 2001): 2-18

Weston, Harold, Freedom in the Wilds: A Saga of the Adirondacks, St. Huberts, N.Y.: Adirondack Trail Improvement Society, 1971 [Keene Valley]

Whalen, Herman, and Ruth Whalen, Chateaugay Lakes, Malone, N.Y.: by the authors, 1997

Wilson, Geoffrey, Rogers Rock: The Hotel, the Club, the Cottage Colony, Bloomington, Ind.: Author House, 2006

Wilson, Leila Fosburgh, The North Woods Club: 1886-1986, by the author, 1986

Zimmerman, Edward, et al., Essex: An Architectural Guide, Essex, N.Y.: Essex Community Heritage Organization, 1986

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