2018-19 Southern Adirondack Guide
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Founded at the turn of the <strong>19</strong>th century along the Schroon River<br />
where a 70-foot-drop in 3 miles offered opportunity for three<br />
dams. Tanneries, sawmills, grist mills, a woolen mill and, later,<br />
shirt and pants manufacture, provided hundreds of jobs. At the<br />
turn of the 20th century the town boasted of municipal water and<br />
sewer systems, and even electric streetlights. It was among the<br />
first towns in the area to offer a free high school education to<br />
all residents when the Warrensburgh Academy was converted, by<br />
popular vote in 1888, to the Union Free School. A trolley line<br />
provided cheap access to towns and cities to the south, and the<br />
populace and industry was soon serviced by a major railroad line,<br />
the Delaware & Hudson. You can learn all about it the Warrensburgh<br />
Museum of Local History, with its two 72-foot long murals.<br />
Among its native sons<br />
was Floyd Bennett, the pilot<br />
who flew Commander<br />
Byrd to the North Pole, who<br />
was awarded the Medal of<br />
Honor, the nation’s highest<br />
military award. U. S. Congressman<br />
Louis Emerson<br />
was born and bred in Warrensburg,<br />
as was his brother,<br />
NY State Senator James<br />
Emerson, a long-term and<br />
influential legislator who<br />
helped create the New York<br />
State highway system in the<br />
early part of the 20th century.<br />
Warrensburg has always been hospitable to travelers and visitors<br />
from its earliest days when numerous hotels lined its streets.<br />
Vacationers seeking a respite from hot cities found Warrensburg<br />
quiet bucolic ways and mountain scenery a tonic from hectic lives.<br />
Warrensburg continues that tradition, with several bed-and-breakfasts,<br />
from elegant Victorian to charming farmhouses and lodges,<br />
dude ranches and several motels<br />
and campgrounds. Fine gourmet<br />
dining in historic buildings, and<br />
hometown cooking in traditional<br />
diner settings draw visitors from<br />
far and wide.<br />
Warrensburg is easily accessed<br />
via Interstate I-87 (<strong>Adirondack</strong><br />
Northway Exit 23) or by public<br />
transit: <strong>Adirondack</strong> Trailways<br />
buses stop several times daily in<br />
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burg and<br />
Amtrak<br />
has train<br />
service<br />
to Fort Edward, where private arrangements<br />
can be made to Warrensburg. Local<br />
taxi service is available.<br />
(518) 623-3431<br />
J. Gallup Farm<br />
Pickle<br />
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