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Adirondack ·
Argyle ·
Au Sable Forks ·
Beekmantown ·
Benson ·
Big Moose ·
Blue Mountain Lake ·
Bolton Landing ·
Brant Lake ·
Cambridge ·
Canton NY ·
Carthage ·
Caroga Lake ·
Chateaugay ·
Chestertown ·
Crown Point ·
Diamond Point ·
Dresden ·
Eagle Bay ·
Easton ·
Elizabethtown ·
Fort Ann ·
Fort Edward ·
Glens Falls ·
Granville ·
Greenwich ·
Hadley ·
Hague ·
Hampton ·
Hartford ·
Hebron ·
High Peaks ·
Hudson Falls / Kingsbury ·
Indian Lake ·
Jackson ·
Inlet ·
Jay ·
Johnsburg ·
Keene ·
Keene Valley ·
Lake Champlain ·
Lake George ·
Lake Luzerne ·
Lake Placid/Whiteface Mountain ·
Long Lake ·
Malone ·
Mayfield ·
Minerva ·
Newcomb ·
North Creek/Gore Mountain ·
North Hudson ·
North River ·
Northville ·
Old Forge ·
Osceola ·
Paul Smiths ·
Peru
Plattsburgh · Potsdam · Putnam · Queensbury · Ray Brook · Rouses Point · Salem · Saranac Lake · Schroon Lake · Schuyler Falls · Speculator · Stony Creek · Stratford · St. Regis Falls · Thendara · Thurman ·Ticonderoga · Tupper Lake · Warrensburg · Westport New York · White Creek · Whitehall · Willsboro · Wilmington   
History of the Adirondack ParkThe 6-million-acre Adirondack Park was established by the New York State Legislature in 1892, and has evolved in to a patchwork of public and private lands, where thousands of people live, work and play in a protected environment of mountains, forests and streams. The private lands are primarily part of the the Adirondack Forest Preserve, a diverse system of State Lands created in 1885 by an act of the New York State Legislature as a conservation effort to stem widespread tree cutting that supported the many lumber, paper, leather tanning, and iron mining industries that predominated the 19th century landscape, as well as ensure the major transportation corridors of the day — the Hudson River and Erie Canal — would not suffer reduced flows from continued logging. This was one of the earliest acts of public land preservation in the nation. In 1894, the Adirondack Forest Preserve was further strengthened by when these now often quoted words were added to the New York State Constitution: "The lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed."
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