New York State Route 373

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Road sign
Basic data
Overall length:  3.2 mi / 5.2 km
Opening:  1930
Starting point:  US 9.svg US 9 in Chesterfield
End point:  Ferry Sign.svg Burlington – Port Kent Ferry
County:  Essex County

The New York State Route 373 ( NY 373 ) is a short State Route in New York's Essex County , within the Adirondack Park . It begins on US Highway 9 (US 9) and heads east to a ferry dock on Lake Champlain . It crosses two county routes, several local roads and a reference route  - NY 912T  - which connects it to US 9. NY 373 is the only connection between US 9 and the hamlet of Port Kent and the ferry terminal there.

The hamlet of Port Kent and the connecting road were originally built in 1823. The hamlet was used to house manpower for iron production and the industrial needs of Essex County. Port Kent grew and was eventually connected to Burlington , Vermont by a one-hour ferry . The beginning of the road was originally in Keeseville but became part of the Port Kent and Hopkinton Turnpike in the 1830s . The highway, now NY 373, was part of the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway in 1919 .

When the NY 373 was established in 1930, part of the route maintenance of the Town of Chesterfield was subject . This section was made state maintenance in 1985.

Route description

A two lane country road in a wooded area on a clear day in early autumn. After a slight curve in the foreground, the road leads straight through the woods until it disappears in the distance.
Looking east along NY 373 at Bolton Acres

NY 373 is entirely within Adirondack Park and begins on US 9 at Ausable Chasm , a deep tree-covered canyon in the Town of Chesterfield. After about 150 meters it crosses NY 912T, its southern connection with US 9. It continues and crosses County Route 71 (CR 71) before heading east-southeast directly north of the Ausable River . The highway then crosses CR 17 and several local roads before heading east-northeast.

The road passes a golf course and reaches Port Kent, where it crosses other local roads, most of which lead to residential and commercial buildings. After leaving the town, the road runs north, crosses two tracks on the Canadian Pacific Railway and passes the Port Kent - Amtrak station and ends after a bend at the ferry terminal of the Burlington-Port Kent Ferry .

The Burlington – Port Kent Ferry connects NY 373 and the hamlet of Port Kent with the City of Burlington, Vermont. This ferry connection is the longest of the three ferry connections across Lake Champlain , as it crosses it at its widest point. It is operated by the Lake Champlain Transportation Company and operates outside the winter months.

history

Port Kent and the early highway to Keeseville

In 1823 a company was formed to build a settlement and fishing port on Lake Champlain across from Burlington, Vermont to support the growth of iron production and bring raw materials to Essex County. The newly founded company called itself "Port Kent" and chose a location north of Trembleau Point as the location for the settlement. The original route of what is now NY 373 began as a wide road built to reach Port Kent from the nearby village of Keeseville .

The current route of NY 373 lies entirely within Adirondack Park , a protected area established in the 1880s. Adirondack Park is maintained by New York State and was created because of fears that the area would be completely deforested. Forestry was an integral part of the state's economy, but protests against the cutting down of entire mountains and forests have been voiced through The New York Times and others. In the 1880s, public opinion turned against the logging companies, and in 1885 the park was established. It was the first State Forest Preserve in the United States. The park received additional protection in 1894 when the New York Constitution was expanded to ban the sale of lumber from state parks.

Old routes and routes

A two lane country road bends to the left and nears the shore of a lake. On the right edge of the picture you can see the sign with the designation "NY 373".
NY 373 heading east with Lake Champlain

On April 16, 1827, a team of three surveyors was commissioned to determine the route for a new highway from the northeastern part of St. Lawrence County town of Hopkinton to Lake Champlain. This exploration took 26 days, then it was decided that the road would meet the lake at what is now Fort Kent. The law authorizing the construction of the highway was passed by the New York State Legislature on April 18, 1829. In total, New York State through the same law allocated approximately $ 38,500 (equivalent to $ 1,089,203 in 2020 prices) to the project Provided.

The 75 mile (121 km) long country road opened as a toll road in 1833 and named the Port Kent and Hopkinton Turnpike. At first it only had one toll booth, roughly in the middle of the route. Two years later, in a petition to the state, the route's operators asked the state to instead set up a toll booth at each end of the road, each of which would collect half the toll. They believed that this would lead to higher income and thus the further maintenance of the highway would be generated. The change was approved; The toll for the route was nevertheless lifted three years later, on March 30, 1838. At this point the maintenance of the road was transferred to the towns in whose area it ran.

In 1919 the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway , a transcontinental road link from Portland , Oregon , Oregon to Portland , Maine was established. In eastern New York, the route runs through Keeseville , Ausable Chasm and Fort Kent along the former Port Kent and Hopkinton Turnpike before reaching Burlington – Port Kent by ferry across Lake Champlain Vermont .

Sometime after 1920, New York State took over the maintenance of most of the road between Ausable Chasm and Port Kent. When the New York State Routes were renumbered in 1930 , the entire route between Ausable Chasm and the ferry terminal in Port Kent was identified as NY 373, despite the fact that a small part of the road was east of Lake Street in Port Kent at the time was not maintained by the state of New York. On April 1, 1985, ownership and maintenance of this section of NY 373 east of Lake Street from the Town of Chesterfield passed to the state.

Important intersections

The course of the route lies entirely within the Town of Chesterfield in Essex County, New York.

mi km Directions Remarks
0.00 0.00 US 9.svg US 9 to I-87  - Keeseville , Plattsburgh western end point in the hamlet of Ausable Chasm
3.20 5.15 Ferry Sign.svg Burlington – Port Kent Ferry eastern terminus in the hamlet of Port Kent
1,000 mi = 1.609 km; 1,000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

supporting documents

  1. ^ A b Standard Oil Company of New York (1930). Road Map of New York [map]. General Drafting Cartography .
  2. ^ Burlington, VT – Port Kent, NY ( English ) Lake Champlain Transportation Company. Archived from the original on May 9, 2008. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
  3. ^ John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps: The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries ( English ). AS Barnes, September 24, 1823, p. 372.
  4. ^ Adirondack Forest Preserve ( English ) National Park Service. November 1, 2007. Archived from the original on December 13, 2007.
  5. ^ Richard Greenwood: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination: Adirondack Forest Preserve ( English , PDF) National Park Service. February 7, 1976 ..
  6. ^ The Constitution of the State of New York ( English ) New York State Senate. Archived from the original on March 17, 2008. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
  7. ^ A b Franklin Benjamin Hough: A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, New York . Little and Co, Albany, New York 1853, pp. 327, 497, 568 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ): “Port Kent Road.”
  8. ↑ Niles' Weekly Register (English) . In: The Franklin Press , p. 131. 
  9. ^ A b New York State Legislature (Ed.): Laws of the State of New York, passed at the Fifty-first session, second meeting, 1828, and Fifty-second session, 1829 . E. Croswell, Albany 1829, pp. 265–268, here p. 267 (English, books.google.com ).
  10. ^ New York State Legislature: Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, Fifty-eighth session ( English ), Volume 1. E. Crowell, 1835, pp. 9-10.
  11. ↑ New York State Legislature: Journal of the Senate of the State of New York at their Fifty-eighth session ( English ). E. Crowell, 1835, pp. 41, 47-48, 76.
  12. ^ New York State Legislature: Journal of the Assembly of the State of New York at their Fifty-eighth session ( English ). E. Crowell, 1835, pp. 159, 167.
  13. ^ New York State Legislature: Laws of the State of New York passed at the Sixty-first session of the Legislature ( English ). E. Crowell, 1838, pp. 96-97.
  14. ^ Max J. Skidmore: Moose Crossing: Portland to Portland on the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway . Hamilton Books, 2006, ISBN 0-7618-3510-5 .
  15. ↑ Official Automobile Blue Book ( English ), Volume 1. Automobile Blue Book Inc., 1926th
  16. ^ New York State Department of Highways: Report of the State Commissioner of Highways ( English ). JB Lyon Company, Albany, New York 1920, p. 274, (Retrieved January 30, 2020).
  17. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (1979). Keeseville Digital Raster Quadrangle [map], 1: 24,000. Accessed January 31, 2020.
  18. ^ New York State Legislature : New York State Highway Law § 341 ( English ) Retrieved January 31, 2020.
  19. ↑ 2008 Traffic Data Report for New York State ( English , PDF) New York State Department of Transportation . June 16, 2009. Accessed January 31, 2020.

Web links

Commons : New York State Route 373  - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files
Commons : New York State Route 912T  - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files