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 | | A little smaller than the Champlain, the Adirondack, built in 1913, is the oldest double-ended ferry in service not only on Lake Champlain but in all of North America. |
 | | She once plied Florida’s St. Johns River, then the Delaware, New York City’s East River, and Chesapeake Bay, under several different names-- the “South Jacksonville,” “Mount Holly.” and the “The Emerson C. Harrington 2nd,” before being rechristened the Adirondack, in 1954, upon entering Burlington- Port Kent service. |
 | | About mid lake my thoughts turned from history to food as I bought a hot dog and soft drink in the homey, 1940s roadside restaurant-like passenger cabin. |
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