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Attention class of 1992
Anyone interested in planning <m reunion, please contact
Stoaleen at 359-7314. Rachel at 359-3779 or e-maU
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and sign your name in the guest
register as year grandparents may
have done at the turn of the
century. Check your modern day
expectations at the door along
with the old steamer trunks and
take a stroll back into history.
Recent history, that is, in the
past100 years of life in Tupper
Lake, as you wander through this
historical glimpse of a time not
long gone by.
"A Visit to Tupper Lake" is
the name of this exhibit, which
is located at the old Hull House
on Water Street, in the
Downtown Tupper Lake
Junction.
A gallery of memorabilia and
historic photographic
reproductions coupled with many
loaned items from throughout
Tupper Lake make this a
veritable trip through local
history, peppered with personal
mementos and tidbits of bygone
visits, vacations and vocations.
The historic Hull House, a
large white building which sits
back from the road as you turn
onto Water Street, was built in
1906. The home was built by
Ferris Meigs who was the owner
of the Santa Clara Lumber
Company, the works of which
were located approximately in the
back yard of the structure. Later
the house was owned by Jerry
Hull, CEO of the Oval Wood
Dish Company.
The exhibit includes the four
main downstairs rooms of the
house.
The idea for such an exhibit
came to Mike Richer a few years
ago, upon the 50th anniversary
of Marcel Richer's Funeral
Home. Mike's subsequent
associations with Dick Azar,
who now owns the house, led to
St. Louis Construction
Commercial & Residential Construction
Kitchens • Bathrooms • Additions • Decks
Garages • Screened Porches
Vinyl Siding • Cedar Siding • Roofing
New Home Construction from
Foundation to Roof Ridge
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Memorable locomotion
Pictured in the above photo is the "Jittney", a six cylinder, 12 passenger rail
bus which made a daily run between Childwold Station and Conifer to
Cranberry Lake. According to driver Ace LaVoy, the drivers wheel engaged
the disc brakes as it rolled into the station. You will enjoy photos and
memories such as this in "A Visit to Tupper Lake" in the Junction.
an offer of the downstairs as a
gallery space. After untold hours
of research and in kind services
provided by places like the
Tupper Lake Free Press which
allowed Mike to reproduce the
photos, the gallery has come
together as a worthy stopover for
visitors to the area as well as old
time Tupper Lakers who may
just want to take a hike down the
memory trail.
Many of the photographs
which have been reproduced for
the exhibit come from the
collections of Louis Simmons
which are found in the archives
of the Goff-Nelson Memorial
Library and in the archives of the
Free Press.
All of the photos are
enlarged from their original size
and cover a wide range of events
and memories of historical and
more recent Tupper Lake from
the past 100 years of its history.
Old Tupper Lake furnishings
and memorabilia catch the eye
everywhere you look as you
stroll through the rooms, and the
walls are literally papered with
reproductions of the old
photographs.
Many people have visited the
house already and many more are
coming in each day the place is
open. Often the visitors find
something of interest to read < >r
look at and can spend a few
idyllic moments just reading or
studying some certain aspect of
local history.
"People love to find old
things that they may have at
home or remember from the
past," Mike said.
In the recreated hotel lobby
there is a big glass display case
from Gabriels, all of the old
logging photos from the
American House are collected
together again, and the register
which guests can sign came from
the American House, and the ink
well is from the Iroquois Hotel.
There is nothing for sale, and
admission is gratis, although
(here is a bucket by the door in
case anyone wants to make a
donation. All money donated
will go to "Next Stop Tupper
Lake", which eventually wants to
restore tourist rail service to
Tupper Lake.
The exhibit is open Monday.
Wednesday and Friday from 3
l>.m. until 6 p.m. each day.
This weekend the building
will he open for extended hours
on Friday mghl until X p.m. and
i.iiain on Sunday Irom ! I a.m.
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the prcm scs until August 24
Piercefield set
to celebrate 100th
Childwold
Folks passing the Tupper Lake War Monument on
the high school grounds in recent weeks have
n o t i c e d some nice l a n d s c a p i n g
improvements
around the local stone, including wooden benches,
flowers and shrubbery. The new greenery project
was approved by the Tupper Lake Board of
Education this spring and the sponsor, American
Legion's Benjamin Churco Post 220, contracted
with Tupper Lake's Usher Farms to do the work.
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In 1878, Mr. Addison Child
of Boston purchased land which
is the present location of
Childwold. Mr. Child built the
first log cabin which was later
added on to and is and is still
present on the site.
On May 9, 1880 Addison
Marden became the first baby
born in Childwold.
The first Post Office in
Childwold was built in 1884. It
opened on April 1st. Named
Childwold, then reestablished on
April 22 as Childwold with Mr.
Child as postmaster.
The year 1889 saw the first
hotel built on Massawepie Lake
and was named the Childwold
Park Hotel.
Childwold Station was
established on the shores of
Pitchfork Pond in 1890, due to
John Hurds Northern Adirondack
Railroad routing through Tupper
Lake.
In 1891 a road was cut
through the virgin wilderness
along the shores of many small
lakes from Childwold Park Hotel
to Childwold Station, a distance
of eight miles.
The year 1892 saw the first
church built, then known as the
Community Church. Robert
McCuen one of the first elders
and Herbert Maynard conducted
the first services.
Childwold was brought into
the fold in 1900 on the l l t h day
of December. The decision had
been made to divide the township
of Hopkinton into two separate
townships; one Piercefield and
the other Atherton.
The first automobile
motored through Childwold in
1910.
The Childwold Park Hotel
ended its last season in 1909. It
was later ra/ed in 1946 for
building materials.
A stone road was built in
Childwold in 1910.
Electricity was brought to
Childwold in'1937.
The year 1956 brought
centralization to the school
system, so children first went to
Piercefield, then they were bused
to Tupper Lake schools.
The year 1992 saw a large
celebration for Childwold Church
Centennial. The Presbyterian
Church still holds services in the
summer, also Christmas V.\c
services and a few weddings
Childwold received a t;eu
Post Office in 1999, the older
one being the Dumas' p n u u e
home. Joan. Dorothy Dumas had
been post mistress many years
and desired to retire. The new
post office is located on the
Bartleit Pair property.
Compiled by Stacy Gensel,
historian. Sources of material and
manuscripts by Richard Buckley.
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