Fort William Henry Motel, Lake George NY, Adirondacks 1960s Vintage Postcard UNP for Sale

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Fort William Henry Motel, Lake George NY, Adirondacks 1960s Vintage Postcard UNP:
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FORT WILLIAM HENRY MOTEL48 Canada Street, Lake George, Warren County, New York 12845The Motel with a beautiful view of Lake George, features the largest pool in the Adirondacks. It is adjacent to the Fort and offers complete freedom of an 18 acre estate in the Village of Lake George.
MIRRO-KROME card by HS Crocker Co., Inc., George is a town in Warren County, New York, United States. The population was 3,502 at the 2020 census. The town is named after the lake, Lake George. The town is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area.
HistoryThe first European to visit the lake was Father Isaac Jogues in August 1642. He was later captured by Mohawks, escaped, and returned home to France. In 1646, he was sent on a political mission to the Iroquois to propose a treaty of peace, and at that point dubbed the lake \"Lac du Saint Sacrement\" (Lake of the Blessed Sacrament).
In 1755, the lake was renamed \"Lake George\" by General William Johnson, in honor of King George II.
Lake George was also the site of Fort William Henry, named in honor of Prince William Henry, grandson of King George II, by General Johnson. The fort, its surrender to the Marquis de Montcalm after a six-day siege by the French and Indians, and the following massacre all in 1757 were used by James Fenimore Cooper as the background for his famous novel The Last of the Mohicans. The fort was reconstructed and opened to the public as a museum in 1953.
The town was established in 1810 as the \"Town of Caldwell\" from parts of the nearby towns of Bolton, Queensbury, and Thurman, and in 1962, the town changed its name to Lake George.
The town is also home to Wiawaka, a historic retreat center that was founded in 1903 for female textile workers from Troy but operates as a nonprofit for everyone today.
The FORWARD shipwreck site (motor launch), Royal C. Peabody Estate, Wiawaka Bateaux Site, and Wiawaka Holiday House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Land Tortoise (radeau) Shipwreck Site and Owl\'s Nest are National Historic Landmarks. The Lake George Battlefield Park Historic District was listed in 2011.
GeographyAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 32.7 square miles (85 km2), of which 30.2 square miles (78 km2) is land and 2.5 square miles (6.5 km2) (7.49%) is water. According to the Lake George Association, Lake George is 32 miles in length and a maximum of two miles in width.
The Adirondack Northway passes through the town.\" - Wikipedia
\"Lake George, nicknamed the Queen of American Lakes, is a long, narrow oligotrophic lake located at the southeast base of the Adirondack Mountains, in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York. It lies within the upper region of the Great Appalachian Valley and drains all the way northward into Lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence River drainage basin. The lake is situated along the historical natural (Amerindian) path between the valleys of the Hudson and St. Lawrence Rivers, and so lies on the direct land route between Albany, New York, and Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The lake extends about 32.2 mi (51.8 km) on a north–south axis, is 187 ft (57 m) deep,[3] and ranges from one to three miles (1.6 to 4.8 km) in width, presenting a significant barrier to east–west travel. Although the year-round population of the Lake George region is relatively small, the summertime population can swell to over 50,000 residents, many in the village of Lake George region at the southern end of the lake.[not verified in body]
Lake George drains into Lake Champlain to its north through a short stream, the La Chute River, with many falls and rapids, dropping 226 feet (69 m) in its 3.5-mile (5.6 km) course—virtually all of which is within the lands of Ticonderoga, New York, and near the site of Fort Ticonderoga. Ultimately the waters flowing via the 106-mile-long (171 km) Richelieu River drain into the St. Lawrence River downstream and northeast of Montreal, and then into the North Atlantic Ocean Nova Scotia.
GeographyLake George is located in the southeastern Adirondack State Park and is part of the St. Lawrence watershed. Notable landforms include Anthony\'s Nose, Deer\'s Leap, Peggy\'s Point (a 15-foot [4.6 m] jump into the lake) or (a 30-foot [9.1 m] jump), the Indian Kettles, and Roger\'s Rock.
Some of the surrounding mountains include Black Mountain, Elephant Mountain, Pilot Knob, Prospect Mountain, Shelving Rock, Sleeping Beauty Mountain, Sugarloaf Mountain, and the Tongue Mountain Range. Some of the lake\'s more famous bays are Basin Bay, Kattskill Bay, Northwest Bay, Oneida Bay, and Silver Bay.
The lake is distinguished by \"The Narrows\", an island-filled narrow section (approximately five miles [8 km] long) that is bordered on the west by the Tongue Mountain Range and the east by Black Mountain. In all, Lake George is home to over 170 islands, 148 of them state-owned. They range from the car-sized Skipper\'s Jib to the larger Vicar\'s and Long Islands. Camping permits are available for most islands.
The lake\'s deepest point is 196 feet (60 m), between Dome Island and Buck Mountain in the southern quarter of the lake. The northern end of the lake that is located near Ticonderoga is considered the southern end of the Champlain Valley, which includes Lake Champlain, as well as the cities Plattsburgh, New York, and Burlington, Vermont.
The Jefferson Project, a collaboration that began in 2014 between IBM, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the Fund for Lake George, is collecting data from the lake using depth sensors that can monitor currents, pH, salinity, and other data, leading the lake to be called, \"[t]he smartest lake in the world.\"
Invasive speciesThere are six known invasive species in Lake George. The Asian clam first found in 2010 is the biggest threat, along with the Eurasian watermilfoil. Other invasive species are the Chinese mystery snail, curly-leaf pondweed, spiny water flea, and zebra mussel.
HistoryThe lake was originally named the Andia-ta-roc-te by local Native Americans. James Fenimore Cooper in his narrative Last of the Mohicans called it the Horican, after a tribe which may have lived there, because he felt the original name was too hard to pronounce.
The first European visitor to the area, Samuel de Champlain, noted the lake in his journal on July 3, 1609, but did not name it.[citation needed] In 1646, the French Canadian Jesuit missionary Isaac Jogues, the first European to view the lake, named it Lac du Saint-Sacrement (Lake of the Holy Sacrament), and its exit stream, La Chute (\"The Fall\"). The 1696 proposed war plan of John Nelson referred to the subject as \"Lake Mohawk\".
On August 28, 1755, William Johnson led British colonial forces to occupy the area in the French and Indian War. He renamed the lake as Lake George for King George II.[8] On September 8, 1755 the Battle of Lake George was fought between the forces of Britain and France resulting in a strategic victory for the British and their Iroquois allies. After the battle, Johnson ordered the construction of a military fortification at the southern end of the lake. The fort was named Fort William Henry after the King\'s grandson Prince William Henry, a younger brother of the later King George III.
In September, the French responded by beginning construction of Fort Carillon, later called Fort Ticonderoga, on a point where La Chute enters Lake Champlain. These fortifications controlled the easy water route between Canada and colonial New York. A French army, and their native allies under general Louis-Joseph de Montcalm laid siege to Fort William Henry in 1757 and burned it down after the British surrender. During the British retreat to Fort Edward they were ambushed and massacred by natives allied to the French, in what would become known as The Massacre at Fort William Henry.
On March 13, 1758, an attempted attack on that fort by irregular forces led by Robert Rogers was one of the most daring raids of that war. The unorthodox (to Europeans) tactics of Rogers\' Rangers are seen as inspiring the creation of similar forces in later conflicts—including the United States Army Rangers.
Lake George\'s key position on the Montreal–New York water route made possession of the forts at either end—particularly Ticonderoga—strategically crucial during the American Revolution.
Later in the war, British General John Burgoyne\'s decision to bypass the easy water route to the Hudson River that Lake George offered and, instead, attempt to reach the Hudson through the marshes and forests at the southern end of Lake Champlain, led to the British defeat at Saratoga.
On May 31, 1791, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to his daughter, \"Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands, its water limpid as crystal, and the mountain sides covered with rich groves... down to the water-edge: here and there precipices of rock to checker the scene and save it from monotony.\"
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Lake George was a common spot sought out by well-known artists, including Martin Johnson Heade, John F. Kensett, E. Charlton Fortune, Frank Vincent DuMond and Georgia O\'Keeffe.\" - Wikipedia
This vintage postcard from the 1960s features the Fort William Henry Motel on Lake George in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. The postcard, which is unposted, is a single unit with a standard size of 5.5 x 3.5 inches. It is printed on high-quality cardboard and paper material with a chrome finish.The postcard captures the essence of the 1960s era with its vibrant colors and detailed lithograph of the Fort William Henry Motel. It also features various themes such as sunbathers, swimmers, lakeside, hotel & restaurant, pool, Adirondack Mountains, patio, and cities & towns. This topographical postcard is a great addition to any collection or as a souvenir for someone who loves vintage memorabilia.