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Title: Ticonderoga: past and present. "Mixed." A companion to "Lake George, illustrated."
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Stoddard, Seneca Ray, 1844-1917
Subjects: Ticonderoga (N.Y.) -- History
Publisher: Albany, Weed, Parsons, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, when the groundswere thrown open to the public. The central portion is two storieshigh; the front sustained by massivecolumns, around which vines clingand climb to the very top. On eachside extends long, low wings, with suits of roomsat the extreme ends, which can be entered from theoutside or through the glass-enclosed verandahfrom the main building. The hotel faces the east,is fronted by a tree-covered lawn, through whicha plank walk leads down to the steamboat dock,and a road runs through the fields to the depota little to the north, over which a free carriageconveys guests to and from all trains. The houseis open day and night; the principal business isthe dinners, which are first-class, and partaken of byhungry travelers while waiting for the boats ; and,altogether, it is a very enjoyable place, unless itrains, in which case (to use a strong word, and onewith a smack of profanity about it, perfectlyplain to those who have been thereabouts at suchtimes) it is simply Ticonderoga.
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52 TiCONDEROGA.

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