New York State Route 373 is a short state highway in Essex County, New
York, within Adirondack State Park. It begins at U.S. Route 9 at the
Ausable Chasm, a deep, wooded canyon in the town of Chesterfield. The
road proceeds eastward, ending at a ferry landing on Lake Champlain. It
is the only connector between U.S. Route 9 and the hamlet of Port Kent
and the ferry that serves it. Port Kent and the connecting road were
originally built in 1823, intended to provide labor for iron
manufacturing and other industries of Essex County. The hamlet grew, and
was eventually connected to Burlington, Vermont, via an hour-long ferry
ride across Lake Champlain. The road that accessed Port Kent originally
began in Keeseville, but became part of the longer Port Kent and
Hopkinton Turnpike in the 1830s. The highway that is now Route 373 was
designated as part of the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway in
1919.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Route_373>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
Union forces earned one of their first important victories in
the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Henry>
1952:
Elizabeth II ascended to the thrones of the United Kingdom,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand and three other Commonwealth countries
upon the death of her father, George VI.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_VI>
1976:
In testimony before a U.S. Senate subcommittee, Lockheed
president Carl Kotchian admitted that the company had paid out
approximately US$3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime
Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals>
1987:
Mary Gaudron was appointed as the first female Justice of the
High Court of Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Gaudron>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
koha:
1. (New Zealand) A Māori tradition of reciprocal giving of gifts.
2. (New Zealand, by extension) A voluntary donation given for a service
that has been provided.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/koha>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I
don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But
in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans,
wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in
harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and
creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and
the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.
That's how I saw it and see it still.
--Ronald Reagan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan>