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 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 23 Jun 1910     Capt. James F. Allen ____ Interesting Sketch of the Life of the Popular Steamboat Man - Commanded all the Folger Boats. ____ The Kingston Whig of June 23 contained the following concerning the late Capt. James F. Allen. Captain Allen was born ...

 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 8 Apr 1915     The Sailing Schooner ____ Will Soon Be a Thing of the Past On the Great Lakes ____ The indications are that is only a matter of time, and a short time at that, when the sailing vessel will have disappeared completely from the Great Lakes. During the ...

      The day of the old wind jammers on the lake is past. There are now 28 schooners in commission on Lake Ontario, where formerly there were several hundred, and they are nearly all Canadian owned, though nearly all once had an American register. As the old schooners and sail crafts …

      The large fishing tug, built at the Phelps shipyard, Chaumont, for Claude W. Cole, of this village, was launched last Thursday afternoon. The craft, considered to be one of the sturdiest built at Chaumont in years, will soon be ready to place in commission.

 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 8 Aug 1929     Hinckley, Ashore at Stony Point, Is a Total Wreck According to advices from Henderson Harbor the steam barge Hinckley, which was beached by its owner, Capt. A. R. Hinckley, about ten days ago in Gravely Bay, between Henderson Harbor and Stony Point, is a total wreck, having been ...

 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 20 Nov 1919     Ontario's Record For Lost Vessels _______ Many Ships Have Mysteriously Disappeared Beneath the Waters of This Lake _______ (Toronto Telegram) Did the "Homer Warren," wallowing the welter of sulky slumbering seas as she pushed her way homeward ...

 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 12 May 1921     Boat Building at Chaumont ____ Captain Frank Phelps Has the Only Shipyard in This Section ____ About fifty years ago, according to a Chaumont correspondent, this section of Jefferson county could boast of three shipyards, one at Sackets Harbor, ...

 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 6 Mar 1941     Post Office Closed at Point Peninsula ____ After more than 102 years the hamlet of Point Peninsula, once a thriving shipbuilding center during the early schooner days of the Great Lakes and later an oil-field boom town, lost its post office on the first day of last ...

      Oswego Its Business Prospects We visited the village of Oswego last week, and must confess that were taken by surprise, in witnessing the numerous evidences which at every step were presented to view, of the rapid increase of business in that beautiful village, located on the ...

      Outrage at Green Bay - The Republican of the 21st Inst., gives the detail of a daring resistance of the laws, that occurred in that place on the Saturday evening previous. It seems that an injunction had been placed in the hands of the Under Sheriff with directions to serve …

      Sunk - Loss of a Schooner We learn from a gentleman who arrived at Oswego via Lake Ontario Saturday morning, that on Thurday evening last at a point about 40 miles below Niagara, the schooner "Cuba,: W.H. Manwaring, Master, was run into by the propeller "Genesee Chief" and with her …

      Steamers on Lake Ontario From an article in the Oswego Times it appears that the first steamboat on Lake Ontario was built at Sacket's Harbor in 1816, and commenced running in the Spring of 1817. She was called the Ontario, and was the first steamer built on the Western Lakes, …

      Fearful and Fatal Accident The Editor of the N.Y. Tribune, writing from Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Under the date of June 11, says: "A fearful casualty took place here yesterday- namely, the upsetting of a row-boat in passing down the rapids, and the drowning of three of ...

      SHIP FEVER Until quite recently, our village has been entirely free from disease. Within the last week or ten days, however, several cases shave appeared among emigrants passing through the canal. Two members of a family who arrived here yesterday from Montreal via. The Oswego ...

      Coal Trade at Oswego As the Legget Gap Railroad, is to be opened on the first of next month, by which a new channel for the cheap transportation of coal, will be opened between this city and the beds of the best quality of Pennsylvania anthracite coal, we have looked …

      THE LATE RIOT AT OSWEGO The Oswego Commercial Times five the following account of this affair. The first accounts which reached us were no doubt somewhat exaggerated: While the Canadian steamer was engaged in carrying out pleasure parties some disturbances took place, as we ...

      Oswego Oswego was among the most severe sufferers by the speculations and high pressure transactions of 1836' 7; but she is gradually and surely recovering. We spent a day there quite recently, and were gratified to witness the evidences of prosperity and thrift which were ...

 Syracuse Daily Star (Syracuse, NY), July 2, 1847     Travelling Correspondence. Liverpool - River and Harbor Convention - Mud Lock - W.C. Bouck - Awful Accident - Baldwinsville - Corn - Fishing, &c.; &c.; BALDWINSVILLE,

 Syracuse Daily Star (Syracuse, NY), July 2, 1847   Travelling Correspondence. Liverpool - River and Harbor Convention - Mud Lock - W.C. Bouck - Awful Accident - Baldwinsville - Corn - Fishing, &c.; &c.; BALDWINSVILLE,

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      The Gale on Lake Erie _______ Twenty-nine Lives Lost _______ The propeller Henry Clay, Capt. Geo. Callash, had aboard 30 crew and one female passenger. At 12 o'clock on the night of the 23d broached to when off Long Point, and laid side up in the trough of sea. ...

      Correspondence of the Star. The pleasure which yesterday's trip up the lake from Oswego to this place afforded me, was so great that my feelings prompt me to make a few dotting of the same. In my frequent visits to the Falls I have found the Lake route decidedly preferable, …