Onchiota Remembered: A History of the Most Remarkable Adirondack Hamlet

278 pp. A history of Onchiota, one of the later-settled parts of the Town of Franklin, in the Saranac Lake region of the Adirondacks. A mill was built there after the Delaware and Hudson and New York Central railroads came through the town in the late 1880s and early 1890s; both stopped in the hamlet. (Nathan Brown, The First Franklinites) This volume includes chapters on Roakdale, Pine Park, Yemasee Lodge, The Hub, Camp Meenagha, Tormey's Cabins, Six Nations Indian Museum, Saint Joseph's Seminary and Camp Lavigerie, the Olmstead family, etc. Black-and-white photographs and maps throughout.