Name/Title
Sand Lake and Sand Lake Revisited - Images of AmericaDescription
Sand Lake and Sand Lake Revisited - Images of America, two separate related books, by Mary D. French and Robert J. Lilly (Sand Lake 2001) and Mary D. French and Andrew J. Mace (Sand Lake Revisited 2007). The initial Sand Lake book summarizes the history of the Sand Lake Township which lies just south of Troy and east of Albany. This community was a center of water-powered industry in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Dams on Crystal, Glass, and Burden Lakes provided waterpower for mills along the Wynantskill and finally for the largest waterwheel in North America at Burden Iron Works in Troy. When the railway arrived, the township with its seven lakes and numerous hotels blossomed into a tourist destination. In Sand Lake you will find Dr. Smith Boughton as "Big Thunder" in the Anti-Rent Wars of the mid-1800s, coded messages issued from church pulpits for transporting slaves via the Underground Railroad, Uline's Infallible Remedy cure-all, the Park Pharmacy soda fountain manned by teenager (later comedian) Jerry Lewis, and Gov. Theodore Roosevelt at Brown's Crooked Lake House. The Sand Lake Revisited book provides a fresh perspective on the history of this eastern New York State township. It features an outpouring of vintage images and stories that have come to light since the first photographic history of Sand Lake was published. Pictured are the beach that was known as Upstate Coney Island, lovely tourist lodgings adjacent to the town's seven lakes, long johns manufactured at Faith Mills, and a hometown Vietnam War hero who saved the lives of 14 men.Collection
Publications and Recorded Presentations Sponsored by SLHS and the Town HistorianCreated By
curator@slhstrustees.orgCreate Date
February 19, 2021Updated By
curator@slhstrustees.orgUpdate Date
March 30, 2021
