Oregon Pond, Onchiota, 1921
Courtesy of Adrondack Experience
Oregon Pond, center right.
1908 USGS map above, 1904 USGS map below
Oregon Pond is a 24-acre, spring-fed pond in Onchiota; Gabriels-Onchiota Road runs past the south end of the pond. Its outlet once powered a sawmill.
Plattsburgh Republican, September 3, 1887
The new railroad from Loon Lake to Saranac Lake village is being pushed to completion, over two hundred men now being employed on it. The whole distance is 19 miles, four and one half of which across the Oregon prairie is on a perfectly straight line and for a distance of 9 1/2 miles there are only two or three slight curves. The line will undoubtedly be in operation the whole distance before Christmas.
The Chateaugay Railway Company have located their extension from Loon Lake to Saranac Lake village. It runs on the west side of Mud Pond, crossing to the island near its head and crossing Round Pond at its root skirts along its east shore, past Buck Pond, Oregon Pond, &c. and leaving Rainbow to the right runs across the “Oregon” prairie passing two miles west of Bloomingdale and within about four miles of Paul Smith's.
Plattsburgh Republican, September 23, 1899
M. E. Walker's new sawmill at Onchiota, at Oregon Pond, at the headwaters of the North Branch of the Saranac River started up this week to saw out Baker Bros. stock of about a million feet of lumber, which they purchased of the Kinsley Lumber Co. after the latter sold their tract to Rockefeller. It will probably take something over a month to complete the job.
Old Dock and Coal Company sawmill on Oregon Pond, undated
Courtesy of Roland Patnode, whose maternal grandparents operated the boarding house in the center distance
