Ligonier Point Historic District, Historic district in Willsboro, US.
Ligonier Point Historic District in Willsboro, Essex County, New York, holds 8 contributing buildings, 16 sites, 7 structures and 3 objects tied to Clark family quarrying, boat building and farming. Its parts are the Clark Quarry and Farm with the Quarry Village remains and three quarries worked c. 1823–c. 1894, Scragwood with its 1830s–1870s dwelling, and Old Elm, an 1841 two-story, five-bay limestone house.
The Clark family quarried Chazy limestone here from about 1823 to 1894 at three quarry pits, and the stone went into the Brooklyn Bridge and the New York State Capitol. A boatyard followed around 1860, and the yacht Narragansett was built about 1880. Old Elm, the Corrin Clark farmhouse, dates to 1841, and the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
The name Scragwood labels the S.W. Clark complex, whose rustic dwelling was built in stages between the 1830s and 1870s; nearby stand Cedar Lodge (c. 1860), a perennial garden (c. 1910), a smokehouse (c. 1850), a summer house (c. 1870) and a tankhouse (c. 1907). At Old Elm, the Corrin Clark Farm Complex keeps a blacksmith shop (c. 1854), smokehouse, icehouse and privy (all c. 1842) and a fruit orchard (c. 1860).
The district lies at Willsboro on the shore of Lake Champlain, with the quarry remains, boatyard and farm complexes set on uneven ground among older structures. There are no marked visitor trails or facilities; access to the privately held buildings is limited, so check landowner permission before walking the grounds.
The district's boatyard dates to about 1860, and the yacht Narragansett to about 1880; both survive as contributing structures of the Clark family's waterfront operations. Look for the boarding house of about 1860, built to house quarry and boatyard workers.
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