Anderson Falls Heritage Society presents:
Leaving No Trace,
Port Kent: A Virtual Walking Tour
Anderson Falls Heritage Society presents:
Leaving No Trace,
Port Kent: A Virtual Walking Tour
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
7:00 PM
Keeseville Fire Department
8 Pleasant Street, Keeseville, NY
Free Admission-- Public Welcome!
Leaving No Trace,
Port Kent: A Virtual Walking Tour
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
7:00 PM
Keeseville Fire Department
8 Pleasant Street, Keeseville, NY
Free Admission-- Public Welcome!
Program Summary: Over its nearly 200 years of existence Port Kent has progressed through
several stages: a hopeful commercial center venture to the residential community of today.
This presentation will focus on when Port Kent served as a hotbed of tourism and recreation
plus other tidbits about additonal structures and railroads. The story will be told using a
combination of past and present images in the format of a virtual walking tour. Come walk
the streets of Port Kent and learn some great history about this hamlet when it was a tourist
mecca. No exercise will be required.
Guest Speaker: Don Wickman – Retired director of the Kent-Delord House Museum in
Plattsburgh and the author of A Very Fine Appearance: The Civil War Photographs of George
Houghton. Don is also considered the authority on the American Revolution site of Mount
Independence in Orwell, Vermont and the Vermont Civil War battle flags. He is presently
working part-time and volunteering at the Adirondack History Museum in Elizabethtown on a
multitude of tasks.
www.andersonfalls.org (518) 834-9219
several stages: a hopeful commercial center venture to the residential community of today.
This presentation will focus on when Port Kent served as a hotbed of tourism and recreation
plus other tidbits about additonal structures and railroads. The story will be told using a
combination of past and present images in the format of a virtual walking tour. Come walk
the streets of Port Kent and learn some great history about this hamlet when it was a tourist
mecca. No exercise will be required.
Guest Speaker: Don Wickman – Retired director of the Kent-Delord House Museum in
Plattsburgh and the author of A Very Fine Appearance: The Civil War Photographs of George
Houghton. Don is also considered the authority on the American Revolution site of Mount
Independence in Orwell, Vermont and the Vermont Civil War battle flags. He is presently
working part-time and volunteering at the Adirondack History Museum in Elizabethtown on a
multitude of tasks.
www.andersonfalls.org (518) 834-9219
