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Show CHAPTER 3 The Bolton-Lake Geopse Home When John Tanner moved his family into the Bolton area in 1818, he first settled in the hilly wooded section overlooking North west Bay, about six miles north of Bolton Landing, in an area known as Wardboro no longer shown on the map. Today it is barely accessible by modem automobiles and is seldom visited by people other than hunters. But two of John's children, Louisa Maria and Martin Henry, were born here before he moved to the lake shore at Bolton Landing. A small cemetery, containing among others the - names of several testify to the use of this burial Tanners, though not the descendants of John ground Tanner, for another half century. 1 use of the term "town of Bolton" is confusing to most read it has an entirely different meaning than the term town in the ers, In West. John Tanner's day, Bolton was a sizeable portion of Warren County, extending along the western shore of Lake George, with an over-all length of perhaps twenty miles and an average width of about one-third its length. Today the "town of Bolton" comprises eighty four square miles and if it were a rectangle would be about fourteen by six miles. It is one of eleven "towns" in Warren County, New York, which comprises approximately nine hundred square miles. 2 The as The term village in this area refers to what out West is called town, and there may be almost any number of villages in a town. The present "town of Bolton" includes three points on the map with the names.: Bolton, North Bolton, and Bolton Landing. Bolton has but two or three houses and one small store, North Bolton is just a dot on the map, but Bolton Landing is a thriving village with nine hundred residents, busy motels, stores, schools, and churches. 3 a |
