Donald A. Windsor
A dugout canoe 16 feet long was pulled out of Otsego Lake during the summer of 1894 by George Rathbun of Cooperstown, according to an article in The Morning Sun (Norwich, NY) of 4 October 1894. Thanks to Tom Knapp for finding this article.
The canoe was down 50 feet underwater and was pulled up in a fishing seine. It bore the marks of the blunt instrument used to dig out the hull. The location was between Hutters Island and Mount Wellington, directly in front of Hyde Hall. Hyde Hall is on the northern shore of Otsego Lake, just northwest of Glimmerglass State Park.
Note that the length approximates the 17 feet of our Dave Walker canoe, posting of 16 August 2011 on this blog.
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