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3 unusual facts about William West Durant


William Durant

William West Durant (1850–1934), architect and developer of camps in the Adirondack Great Camp style, including Camp Pine Knot and Sagamore Camp

William West Durant

By 1871, tracks had been laid from Saratoga to North Creek, New York, at which point, financial problems caused the project to stall.

In 1884, William married Janet Lathrop Stott, 19, the only surviving daughter of the Stotts of Bluff Point and Stottville, New York, a family with which the Durants had had business and family relationships for several generations.



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