Shatagee Woods

Shatagee Woods History

Scope of this project

Welcome. The topic of this page is the history of the Shatagee Woods, an area described by Samuel Hammonds as approximately from Chazy westward to Bradley Pond and Chateaugay Lakes, then on to Mountain Pond, Ragged Lake, westward to Duane, thence south to Saranac Lake, and back to the point of origin. It is roughly an area referred to by the old-timers as encompassing the northern area of the Adirondacks just before the St. Lawrence Valley. If you’ve come here looking for smug scholarship, you’ve definitely landed on an unchartered asteroid. Go over to Wikipedia where such pomposity thrives. However, if you’re looking to find reproductions of vintage photographs, reprints of original articles from which various authors have cited for their work, then you’re in the right place. I try to include the original publication information if that is known, so if something is on here without a reference, most likely it’s from a scrapbook clipping that has been hand-typed by me (although that is not always the case), which forms the primary source of most of this material.

Reincarnations

Several years ago I created a website to share the historical materials about Chateaugay Lake that I’ve gathered and collected. Sources include materials from the scrapbook of my father, John D. Miles [1918-1982]. The earliest newspaper cuttings from his scrapbook dated from before he was born, therefore this project was actually begun by his grandparents John D. and Settie Blow Miles. My dad kept all kinds of records: he maintained numerous clippings from the NYS Conservation magazine, and kept a journal detailing the weather as well as other odd entries. His scrapbook consisted mainly of historical clippings, as well as items about cousins and neighbors. Because it was so interesting, I began scanning the photos he’d collected as well as transcribing the historical texts, and uploaded a lot of this material to a website in 1998, which has now been reformatted.

Shatagee Woods Tribe of Hermetic Hermits

Here’s a link to a social networking site for all Shatagee Woods afficiandos:

Shatagee Woods Tribe of Hermetic Hermits