Historic Marker for Timbuctoo
Historic Marker for Timbuctoo is a memorial in Town of North Elba, Essex, New York. Historic Marker for Timbuctoo is situated nearby to the sports venue Lake Placid Olympic Training Center, as well as near the hospital Adirondack Medical Center at Lake Placid.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lake Placid Airport and Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex.
Lake Placid Airport
Aerodrome
Lake Placid Airport is a public use airport located one nautical mile southeast of the central business district of Lake Placid, a village in the Town of North Elba, Essex County, New York, United States.
Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex
Sports venue
Photo: Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex, also known as the MacKenzie Intervale Ski Jumping Complex, consists of HS100- and HS128-meter ski jump towers built for the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, United States. Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex is situated 1 mile southeast of Historic Marker for Timbuctoo.
Lake Placid station
Railway station
Photo: Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lake Placid Station is a former railroad station, built by the Delaware and Hudson Railway in Lake Placid, New York. In the post-World War II period, the NYC's North Star train, and later, the Iroquois, provided direct sleeping car service from New York City's Grand Central Terminal to Lake Placid. Lake Placid station is situated 4,100 feet north of Historic Marker for Timbuctoo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lake Placid and Ray Brook.
Lake Placid
Photo: Atilin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake Placid is a village of 2,400 people in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, near the center of the town of North Elba and named after an adjacent lake.
Ray Brook
Hamlet
Ray Brook is a hamlet in the U.S. state of New York, located on NY 86 between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid in the Town of North Elba in Essex County. It is the site of the Adirondack Park Agency, the District 5 office of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Federal Correctional Institution, Ray Brook and the Adirondack Correctional Facility. Ray Brook is situated 5 miles northwest of Historic Marker for Timbuctoo.
Historic Marker for Timbuctoo
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “Timbuctoo Lyman Eppes & other black New Yorkers settled nearby to join 1846 voting rights ‘scheme of justice’ Est. by abolitionist Gerrit Smith William C. Pomeroy Foundation 2021”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Town of North Elba, Essex, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.26544° or 44° 15′ 56″ northLongitude
-73.98163° or 73° 58′ 54″ westInception
2021Open location code
87P87289+59OpenStreetMap ID
node 12592519754OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lake Placid Olympic Training Center and Adirondack Medical Center at Lake Placid.
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