North Creek, New York
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North Creek is a hamlet located in the Adirondack Park, in the town of Johnsburg, in Warren County, New York, between Indian Lake and Chester. It is an area known for skiing, hiking and other outdoor recreational activities.
[edit] History
North Creek was the original northern terminus of the first railroad into the Adirondacks, built by Dr. Thomas C. Durant. It was to the station at North Creek that then Vice President Theodore Roosevelt rode from Mount Marcy upon learning of the death of William McKinley in 1901.
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