Collectibles
Two Books by Adirondack Historian, Edith Pilcher
- Item Number
- 562
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Item Description
Castorland, French Refugees in the Western Adirondacks 1793-1814, published in 1985
Up the Lake Road, The First Hundred Years of the Adirondack Mountain Reserve, published in 1987
Edith Pilcher is an Adirondack historian, author of many magazine articles and a distinguished book on the history of Castorland, a 1794 French emigre settlement in the Adirondacks. She resides in Schenectady, N.Y.
Castorland - the Lane of Beavers - is a tract of land situated in Lewis County, New York, on the Black River, between Lowville and Carthage. The story of Castorland is the often repeated talk of frustrated settlements in the wilderness. It is the story of an attempt of the exiled nobility and clergy of the ancient regime in France to found a settlement in the worlds of New York State where they could find a secure retreat from the horrors of the French Revolution.
In 1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote of 'the Adirondacks... where all the sacred mountains drew around us." Some years later, a handful of vacationing city dwellers were struck by the incredible natural beauty of a tract of relatively unspoiled and inaccessible forest land in the midst of the "high peaks" region of New York State's Adirondack Mountains. Boldy, they snatched the property from a threatened massive lumbering defacement and thus began, in 1887, the "Adirondack Mountain Reserve". Up the Lake Road is an account of the first hundred years of that enterprise.
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