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.

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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

_____________________________ 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

___________________________ 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