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Click on photo to view a larger version. The men listed below were active in the North Country before 1900. They represent just a sampling of the boatshops that dotted the region before the turn of the century. Hallie Bond writing in Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks notes that most Adirondack boatbuilders did not run big businesses; many guideboat builders especially did so seasonally and left few written records. Very little information has been assembled about many builders. Names are arranged by town; research in local record repositories might yield additional material about individual guideboat builders.
Long Lake
Hank Austin
Hiram Austin
Lewis Austin
William Austin
Ruben Carey
Charles Cole
Simon Cole
Warren Cole
Cyrus Palmer
Ransom Palmer
John Plumley
Mitchell Sabattis
George Stanton
Henry Stanton
William Stanton
Tupper Lake
Leonard Anderson
_______ Dyke
Henry Huntington
Alaric Moody
Earl Owen
Luther Owen
Warren Slater
Newcomb
William Alden
Daniel Bissell
Harvey Bissel
Edmund Chase
Caleb Judson Chase
Ellsworth Hayes
Indian Lake
Harve Bonney W. L. Case
Blue Mountain Lake
Charles Blanchard
Boonville
William Breen
Floyd D. Grant
Henry Dwight Grant
Lewis I. Grant
Saranac Lake
Arlo C. Flagg
Theodore Hanmer
____ Krumbholz
Charles Shaw
William Allen Martin
Fred W. Rice
Lake Placid
Albert Henry Billings
Herman C. Bliss
Tom George
William McLenathan
Old Forge
Jake Haynor
Ben Parsons
Ira Parsons
Riley Parsons
Theodore Seeber

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