New York State Museum Bulletin 



Entered as second-class matter November 27, 1915, at the Post Office at Albany, New York, 

 under the act of August 24, 1912 



Published monthly by The University of the State of New York 

 No. 211, 212 ALBANY, N. Y. July- August, 191 8 



The University of the State of New York 

 New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director 



GEOLOGY OF THE LAKE PLACID 

 QUADRANGLE 



By William J. Miller 

 WITH A CHAPTER ON THE PLEISTOCENE GEOLOGY 



By HAROLD L. ALLING 



INTRODUCTION 



The Lake Placid quadrangle^ comprises a territory of approxi- 

 mately 214 square miles in the northeastern portion of the Adiron- 

 dack mountains. It is bounded by latitude lines 44° 15' and 44° 

 30', and by longitude lines 73° 45' and 74°. More than two-thirds 

 of the area of the quadrangle lies in Essex county, while the 

 remaining (northern) portion lies in Franklin and Clinton counties. 

 Lake Placid, Newman, Keene, Upper Jay, and Wilmington are the 

 principal villages. Haselton has but a few houses, and Franklin 

 Falls, once a village of 30 or 40 houses, now has but two resi- 

 dences and an electric power plant. Only one railroad enters the 

 map limits, this being the Adirondack branch of the Delaware and 

 Hudson, which reaches i mile into the quadrangle to Newman near 

 Lake Placid. A new state road crosses the quadrangle from west 

 of Newman, through the Wilmington notch, the village of Wil- 

 mington, and thence eastward. Another state road passes through 

 Keene and Upper Jay. 



Lake Placid and immediate vicinity is one of the greatest of all 

 Adirondack summer resorts. There are several large hotels and 

 many smaller hotels and boarding houses which accommodate 



^ See map in pocket of back cover of this bulletin. 



