"WHERE DID THE NAME COME FROM?"


ANDIA-TE-ROC-TE - Is translated to be,  "Where The Mountains Close In"
    -  taken from the booklet of the same name, by
 
  Charles Clifford King, Jr.


"Most people think 'ADIRONDACKS' is a corruption of an Iroquois word for
their enemies the Algonquins, whom they called "rat-i-ron-tacks" or
"eaters of bark" in derisive reference to the Algonquins' supposed
inability to farm well.  This, of course, has never been proven, and
some native Americans  . . . . dismiss it as white man's fantasy.  The
word was first applied by a surveyor, Ebenezer Emmons, in 1837."

Quoted from "The Adirondack Book - A Complete Guide"
by Elizabeth Folwell


LAKE GEORGE was known as "La Lac du Sacrement" -
so named by the French prior to the 1700's because of the beauty and
purity of the Lake.

After the decade of "The French and Indian War"  1754-1760 Sir William
Johnson, who lead the English defeat of the French, changed the name of
the lake to LAKE GEORGE in honor of his king.    Information from "Call
Me Adirondack" by Murray Heller