Paul Smith's Hotel

Barnum, and the power elite of the latter half of the 19th century, such as E. H. Harriman and Whitelaw Reid.

In 1860, an article titled "Shooting in the Adirondack" was published in the periodical "All the Year Round."

[1] This was Stephen Warren Morehouse recorded in the 1860 US Census as an employee of the Paul Smith's Hotel and who later served in the Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry Regiment.

[2] For years the hotel was kept intentionally primitive, offering neither bellboys nor indoor bathrooms.

Stagecoaches delivered guests to the hotel until 1906, when a short electric railroad connected it to the nearest main line.