Dennis McCarthy

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The Swan Hollow Bridge

Southeast of Alexandria Bay, NY, lies a silent witness to the early history of America. Located on Swan Hollow Road, is a stone bridge.

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Cape Vincent's "Rose and Crown" Gun

The war eventually ended, but the gun’s watch did not. It remained at Fort Haldimand until 1807, long after the "United States" had become a reality . . .

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Gitana – Lost within sight of the Tibbetts Point Lighthouse

George B. Sloan, Jr. had given Captain Blackburn explicit orders not to attempt to cross the lake unless the water was perfectly smooth.

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Carleton Island Royal Shipyard (1778-1788)

In August 1778 Governor-General of Canada Frederick Haldimand and the Royal Corps of Engineers selected a strategic site . . .

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Historic Shipwrecks of the Thousand Islands

From 1754 to 1760, the British and French built over 18 major warships on Lake Ontario and the Thousand Islands . . .

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Seeing Shipwrecks Then and Now

The first deep glimpse under the waters was for a select few with hardhat diving in the nineteenth century, but it was expensive and risky . . . Now underwater vehicles and underwater drones collect data and images without human intervention.

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State of the Art Technology at Work

On February 4, 2022, Khris and Dana Hunt, from Hunt's Dive Shop in Clayton, NY, set up a tent on the ice covering the St. Lawrence. Though the tent looked similar to the many other ice fishing tents used by fishermen every February, the Hunts were on a different mission.

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Wrecks in Jefferson County

The waters of Jefferson County have one of the largest collections of freshwater shipwrecks anywhere in the Great Lakes system.

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NOAA's Proposed Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary

There are 13 existing national marine sanctuaries in the U.S. and three under consideration by NOAA, including Lake Ontario. - should there be another in our region?

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