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Sunday July 4, 1909
Mrs. George Fuller Tuttle, in her
"THREE CENTURIES IN THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY" [1909]1 set the tone
for us when she described the first day's observances:
"Sunday, throughout the Champlain Valley was
celebrated with appropriate religious services the Tercentenary of the
discovery of this incomparable lake... At... Plattsburgh...the pastor
preached... on the subject "Three Centuries of Divine Providence in the
Champlain Valley."... at Cliff Haven, under the blue canopy of heaven,
in a "forest cathedral" Pontifical High Mass was celebrated. On Isle La
Motte, also, High Mass was celebrated in the open air chapel, erected at
the shrine of St. Anne, built 1666.
In the evening, Governor and Mrs. Hughes arrived at
Hotel Champlain from their camp at Saranac Inn in anticipation of
Monday's celebration."
Official Medal presented
to guests of the State of New York.
The Report of the New York Lake
Champlain Tercentenary Commission [1911]2, tells us more of
the celebrations on the Vermont side of the lake:
"Nowhere did the observance of the day present a more
impressive spectacle than at Burlington, where an assemblage estimated
above five thousand gathered in the open air at the lake front and
shared in a vesper service arranged in honor of Champlain."
In keeping with the sense of propriety of the
times, Sunday July 4 was mostly reserved for religious events. The
celebrations in earnest began Monday in historic Crown Point.
Continued here...
Our thanks to Tom and Judy Allen of Ticonderoga, New York for the
photo of the Champlain Tercentenary Medallion.
1
THREE CENTURIES IN THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY: A COLLECTION OF
HISTORICAL FACTS AND INCIDENTS- TERCENTENARY EDITION. 1909: Compiled and
Edited by Mrs. George Fuller Tuttle. Saranac Chapter, D.A.R. Plattsburgh, NY.
2
The Champlain
Tercentenary: Report of the New York Lake Champlain Tercentenary
Commission.1911:Prepared by Henry Wayland Hill, LL.D., Secretary
of the Commission. Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, State Printers.
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