Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1883 — A Deserted Village. [ARTICLE]

A Deserted Village.

In the very heart of the Adirondack wilderness is located what is known as “the deserted village.” Fifty years ago 90,000 acres of land were purchased by a man named Henderson, and other capitalists, a St. Francis Indian having disclosed to the party that the region was rich in ore. A blast-furnace, a forge, a saw-mill, tenement-houses, a store, a school-house and a bank were erected, and hundreds of thousands of dollars expended in cutting roads, and and other improvements. Operations were carried on twenty-four years. In 1845 Henderson was accidentally shot dead, and five years later business was suddenly suspended. The ponderous water-wheel and the machinery are just where they stopped thirty-three years ago, Wheelbarrows and tools lie around as though operations had been discontinued only yesterday. The village is now the headquarters of a New York sporting club, and the greater part of the year Myron Buttles, agent of the club and his family are the only inhabitants of this once busy spot,