Communities

Although on the mainland, St. Lawrence Park was one of many cottage colonies on the river once linked to the railroad by steamboat service. St. Lawrence Park likewise featured a

A large island once populated mostly by farmers, Grenadier now has a private golfcourse and four components of the St. Lawrence Islands National Park, as well as vestiges of the

The small village across the river from Brockville is a companion communitiy, the other gate post at the eastern extermity of the Thousand Islands. The first explorers coming up the

Fishers Landing is a popular gathering place. In addition to a waterside restaurant, the hamlet provides a major marina. Fisher's Landing, between Alexandria Bay and Clayton, has long

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The village of Clayton, with its long history of ship and boat building, was a fitting place for development of a major institution of the region, the Antique Boat Museum.

One of the smaller cottage colonies, Grenell Island's history is as varied and interesting as its shape and topography. One of the region's early island inns,

The name is a misnomer, since the island certainly is not "round." Called "Frontenac" when the great hotel of that name made this a center of

Point Vivian Yesterday and Today By Richard W. Randall, President Point Vivian Park Association, Inc. History of Point Vivian began in 1877, when a group of investors from Evans Mills,

A remarkable survival of a nineteenth-century village, largely unchanged for more than a century, Thousand Island Park retains a rich collection of charming cottages. More than a museum village, however,

The fourth largest island (after Wolfe, Wellesley, and Grindstone), Howe is about eight miles long by three miles wide. Two ferry services connect to the mainland across the Bateau Channel