1897 Map of Paradox Lake

About this map

Hammondville stands as a focal point of industrial interest in this late 19th-century survey of the eastern Adirondack wilderness. The map documents the region's iron mining legacy, specifically marking the route of the A. and H. R. R. connecting to Ironville, alongside several road segments noted as Abandoned even by the 1890s. The landscape is defined by a dense network of water bodies, from the sprawling Paradox Lake with its distinct Narrows and Smith Bay to the high-elevation Pharaoh Lake tucked beneath Pharaoh Mt.