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Fort Montgomery Sale brought $45,482 .The Fort: Montgomery militars. reser vation including the a missive fortifica ion, known as “Fort Blunder,” was sold at anuction by the war department Sept. 1 for £ 45,482. The fort won its title of “Fort Blunder’ by reason of the fact that owing to a mistake by the surveyors who established the boun dary one between the United States and Canada iy 1814, it was placed on British soil, which was ceded to the Vaulted States under the Webster-Ash burton treaty many years later. The reservation, which comprised a total of 343 acres of land, was sold in five separate parcels. The Delaware and Hudson railroad paid $L055 for one parcel which included a right of way and the Chamaphile and St. Law rence railroad, no branch of the Grand Trunk, bought another right of way parcel for BRT. The other three parcels, including the fort steels, were purchased by Hire man Dickstein, 280 ° Broadway, New York City, for a total of $48,000,
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Keeseville Essex County Republican
Keeseville, New York, US
Fri, Sep 24, 1926
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