St. Mary's Of The Fort Church, apparently a Roman Catholic church and owner of at least one of the two cemeteries I saw:
A former church, now a senior center:
A traditional colonial house, a popular style in town:
Fort Covington Town Hall, apparently also a former church. The first "o" in Covington, by the way, is pronounced as in job or cob, not as in governor:
I turned onto what I thought was a side street but decided that it must once have been the main street:
Former commercial buildings seemed to be standing empty and/or converted to apartments:
These old main street buildings looked historic:
I'd seen the Fort Covington water tower from a distance, but got a closeup view behind a local residence:
And this was the house behind which I espied the water tower. I was finding this town fascinating and kept driving. I'll post Part 4 tomorrow:
I, too, would want to wander these streets with such unusual architecture; this last porch seems so extravagant on such a boxy house. There is a sad sense of decay for a once thriving town.
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Thanks. I thought it was one of the nicest small towns I've visited yet. I still want to go visit Waddington, farther west on the southern shore of the St. Lawrence.
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