Dexter responded by building a house in the middle of the road and employed armed mercenaries to patrol it. Alfred went around the obstruction and legally managed to have Dexter’s road proclaimed a public highway. In response, Dexter threatened to “employ a hundred shotguns,” and created a manmade “blowdown” across Alfred’s route that he used to transport lumber.
For example, in 1890, when Dexter sued Alfred for trespass, the latter was able to use his influence to change venues from New York City to the local (more friendly) court system in nearby Malone, NY. Alfredĭexter’s main nemesis was the irascible, wealthy local lumber baron, Joe Alfred, who had the financial means to fight back by using many of the techniques that Dexter utilized. For thirteen years, Dexter battled his neighbors, often engaging in lengthy lawsuits that brought little progress for either side. Lumbermen, fishermen and hunters, who had previously used the land for their livelihood, or access to market, retaliated by cutting holes in fences, removing signs, and illegally hunted, fished, and logged on the estate. Within a few years he had angered and alienated all of his neighbors. Like many other owners of exclusive Adirondack preserves, he posted and fenced in his entire property. He built a guesthouse (in which no one ever stayed,) a boathouse, barn, carriage house, and several other outbuildings, and renamed the East Branch Pond after himself. In the late 1800s, Dexter constructed a $50,000 Adirondack reproduction of the German artist Albrecht Dürer’s Nuremberg home and named it Sunbeam Lodge. The rich history of this property began in the late nineteenth century when Dexter, a wealthy New York attorney, purchased nearly 10,000 acres surrounding the pristine, 200-acre East Branch Pond. Regis Falls, about 37 miles northwest of Saranac Lake. Dexter continues to be a topic of conversation and is part of the region’s legacy that perplexes and mystifies local residents and visitors alike.ĭexter Park is a private preserve, located five miles from the northern border of the Adirondack Park, near St. After more than a century, the mysterious death of Orrando P. Murder in the Adirondack wilderness is rare unsolved murders even more so.
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