Historical Highlights

Sand Lake Historical Society

Historical Highlights is the official newsletter of the Sand Lake Historical Society, published in summer, fall, winter and spring of each year.

Back issues are now available in PDF from December 1974 through Spring 2024

Below are some of the featured articles (some edited/expanded from their original printing) on many assorted topics, along with other bits of history.

"Townwide" / general interest

• Origins of the Sand Lake Town Historian's office
• Troy & New England Railway (Trolley) [.PDF, 8 Meg]
  • From a 2010 presentation to SLHS, in turn based on a 1975 publication for SLHS by Charles Viens and Sanford Young
    
    
• ElRoy Face: Sand Lake's Baseball Claim to Fame
• Looking Back...a History of our Newsletter
• World War I and Sand Lake
• Gas Stations in the Town of Sand Lake
• Historical Markers in the Town of Sand Lake
• A Library for the Town of Sand Lake
• Sixty (+) years of the Sand Lake Advertiser
• Toll gates
• Protection Against Horse Thieves
• The Bells of Sand Lake
• Town of Sand Lake Schools Prior to 1929
• Beaches and Parks
• Averill Park Schools Video Discovery Program 1985-1991
• The Saga of the Sampler
• Tell us a story...

By "Hamlet"

Averill Park area (originally Sand Lake)

• ?Averill? (origins of the name "Averill Park")
• Sand Lake -- Mill Town?
• The Town Garage on Eastern Union Turnpike
• Tremont Lumber Company Calendars
• The Wooden Structure [at] Burden Lake Road and Route 43
• Mill Memories

Burden Lake area

• Burden Lake
• The Totem Pole at Totem Lodge
• The Ice Harvester of Burden Lake

Sand Lake area (originally Sliter's Corners)

• Moscow, the Civil War Horse
• Fox Mansion named to historical register
• They're Tearing Down Crist Crape's Hotel!
• Methodist Farm

Taborton area (originally East Sand Lake, Georgetown)

• Zion's United Church of Christ, Taborton, 150th anniversary

West Sand Lake area (originally Uhlein's Corners)

• Clifford Hastings Brings Electricity to Sand Lake

We will continue to feature more articles from Historical Highlights in the future. Please check back!

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