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Shipyards of Lake Ontario Once Ran On Winter Craft
The Syracuse Herald piece recalls 19th century Lake Ontario and St Lawrence River shipyards from Oswego to Chaumont where winter built boats to replace aging craft. Oak forests, shipways, and crews fed lighters, schooners, tugs, and barges as steel overtook wood and Chaumont’s yard faded by mid 20th century.
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Roy E. Fairman
Lake Ontario
St. Lawrence River
Syracuse Herald
Alexandria Bay
Oswego
Great Lakes
Alexandria
Cape Vincent
Three Mile Bay
Chaumont
Sackets Harbor