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From Ore to Orchids

by Lisa Bramen | Oct 4, 2018 | February 2017

The legacy of Benson Mines If a landscape could be read like a book, two scenes near the western Adirondack hamlet of Star Lake would seem to belong to very different genres. The first is visible to anyone driving west along Route 3 from Wanakena. On the right,...

Frontier Town: Lyon Mountain’s Days of Ore

by Niki Kourofsky | Oct 3, 2012 | February 2011, History

Photograph courtesy of Friends of Lyon Mountain and Railroad Museum Mrs. Harrica was crying. When she’d been called to her classroom door on a cold day in 1957 and returned in tears, every third-grader knew what it meant: someone’s father, or brother, or uncle...

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