The Adirondack Stage Company started operations in May, 1870. It was incorporated in Albany in 1889.
Essex County Republican, April 27, 1945 [1870]
75 Years Ago In Essex Co.
…Two of the three Concord coaches for the Adirondack Stage Company reached Keeseville on Saturday. Regular trips will commence May 25.
Plattsburgh Republican, June 11, 1870
The only item of interest in this section it the starting of the Adirondack Stage Co., Messrs. HARPER, SMITH & Storrs, proprietors. The line extends from this place to the Saranac and St. Regis lakes. By this arrangement tickets will be sold at the principal railway stations throughout the country, to the Adirondack's direct. Mr. BENTLY, the architect, from Plattsburgh, is building a large barn for the stage line. The building is to be 108 feet long, by 32 feet wide, with sheds on each aide 14 feet wide and 90 feet long. Travel to the lakes has already set in, and the coaches go out loaded.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, April 7, 1961
This ‘n’ That
"...The next mail carrier that I remember was "Uncle Jim" Kelly who came on the route about 1862..till about 1864; then Uncle Jay Miller took the route till 1868, when A. F. O'Brian came on..till 1872; then the Adirondack Stage Company was organized with Paul Smith, William Harper and Mr. Storrs as the company. We now had a daily mail and new Concord coaches for five months of the year..."
See Post Offices for the rest of this piece.
Plattsburgh Sentinel, June 28, 1889
An Adirondack Stage Line.
A preliminary certificate for incorporation has been filed with the secretary of state by the Adirondack stage company, limited. The object is to transport passengers, baggage and goods through the counties of Saratoga, Warren, Essex, Clinton, Hamilton, Franklin and St. Lawrence, and particularly between North Creek, Warren county and Blue Mountain lake, in Hamilton county. James W. Hutt, George W. Kirchwey and Frank M. Sheldon of Albany; Ebenezar H. Virgil and Tunis N. Smith of Troy are the incorporators. The principal office is to be in Albany, and the capital is $18,000.
The Fort Covington Sun, August 14, 1890
…There is in the employ of the Adirondack Stage Company a driver who is said to be a full-blooded Indian, and would so be described from his appearance…
Health and Pleasure on "America's Greatest Railroad," New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, 1894, p. 306
ADIRONDACK STAGE COMPANY (LIMITED).
Four-horse stages, six-horse tally-ho coaches and covered spring buck-boards run from July 1st to October 15th daily, Sundays excepted, between North Creek Station of the Adirondack Railway and Blue Mountain Lake, stopping at North River, Summit Springs, Indian River, Indian Lake, Cedar River and Forest House. Leave North Creek at about 1.05 P. M. Leave Blue Mountain Lake at about 7.45 A. M. Trip occupies about five hours. Thirty minutes allowed on all trips for meals at North River.
