Adirondack Experience (formerly Adirondack Museum), located in the hamlet of Blue Mountain Lake in Hamilton County, New York state. It is a museum dedicated to preserving the history of the Adirondacks. The museum is located on the site of an historic summer resort hotel, the Blue Mountain House, built high above Blue Mountain Lake in 1876 by Miles Tyler Merwin, that operated until the late 1940s. The museum consists of 24 buildings, 121 acres, and 60,000 square feet of exhibition space. Adirondack Experience is open late-May to mid-October. The museum's collections include historic artifacts, photographs, indigenous arts, archival materials, and fine art documenting the region's past in twenty-four buildings including historic structures and contemporary galleries.—Wikipedia
A naphtha launch, sometimes called a "vapor launch", was a small motor launch, powered by a naphtha engine. They were a particularly American design, brought into being by a local law that made it impractical to use a steam launch for private use. Adirondack Experience (formerly Adirondack Museum), located in the hamlet of Blue Mountain Lake in Hamilton County, New York state. It is a museum dedicated to preserving the history of the Adirondacks. The museum is located on the site of an historic summer resort hotel, the Blue Mountain House, built high above Blue Mountain Lake in 1876 by Miles Tyler Merwin, that operated until the late 1940s. The museum consists of 24 buildings, 121 acres, and 60,000 square feet of exhibition space. Adirondack Experience is open late-May to mid-October. The museum's collections include historic artifacts, photographs, indigenous arts, archival materials, and fine art documenting the region's past in twenty-four buildings including historic structures and contemporary galleries.—Wikipedia
El Lagarto raceboat, the Leaping Lizard of Lake George. El Lagarto won the 1934 and 1935 Gold Cup held on Lake George. El Lagarto remains an icon of American boating history. She was from an era when raceboats were required to be ‘sensible’, and have niceties such as a forward cockpit and a reverse gear. Adirondack Experience (formerly Adirondack Museum), located in the hamlet of Blue Mountain Lake in Hamilton County, New York state. It is a museum dedicated to preserving the history of the Adirondacks. The museum is located on the site of an historic summer resort hotel, the Blue Mountain House, built high above Blue Mountain Lake in 1876 by Miles Tyler Merwin, that operated until the late 1940s. The museum consists of 24 buildings, 121 acres, and 60,000 square feet of exhibition space. Adirondack Experience is open late-May to mid-October. The museum's collections include historic artifacts, photographs, indigenous arts, archival materials, and fine art documenting the region's past in twenty-four buildings including historic structures and contemporary galleries.—Wikipedia
