The Border Town Of Fort Covington, New York - Part 4

I had been driving around the border town of Fort Covington (see also Parts 1, 2 and 3 posted previously) and enjoying it so much that I didn't want to quit. The houses were lovely, the people were nice and the traffic in the business district was bustling:

A historic stone house with a sign reading "Law Office:"

A Presbyterian church:

And another brick house with gingerbread trim, this one with an amazing screened porch and stone pillars out front:

A house with a new metal roof:

Another brick house with gingerbread trim:

I can't explain why, but it seemed important to me to get a photo of the Italian Delight pizza shop on the main street of town, so much so that I had to make a number of passes. The traffic was so busy that I had trouble stopping to take a picture. I finally turned onto a side street and used my zoom lens:

A lovely home with Christmas decorations:

I don't know my house styles, but I'd call this a colonial with Canadian influences:

My last picture of the day was of this brick home, set behind big, old maples. Fort Covington looked to me to be one of the nicest towns in the north country and I sure enjoyed my tour. I hope you did also:

The Border Town Of Fort Covington, New York - Part 1

I'd heard about Fort Covington ever since I moved to the north country, but I hadn't yet been there. I checked Google Maps and found it, only about 25 miles from my house, on the Canadian border and inside an arc of the Little Salmon River. A historic town with a population of only 1600 people, it was originally called French Mills but the name was changed to Fort Covington after the War of 1812:

I turned onto Highway 37, an east-west route which parallels the Canadian border and found myself in a commercial zone with more businesses and more traffic than I would expect from a town of 1600 people. And there was an auto dealer/repair business called Northern New York Auto Sales:

Across the highway was Smith Lumber:

And Smith Auto Repair, probably owned by the same family as Smith Lumber and I wondered if it was related to Northern New York Auto Sales. I suspected it was:

A funeral home:

I began seeing a few houses, many of which were set behind giant, old trees:

Twin Leaf Express. I stopped here on my way out of town and bought gas at the full service station, then went into the deli/convenience store/diner for a cup of coffee where I learned that coffee was free when you bought gas. Business was booming, with so many cars coming and going that the gas station attendant told me to stay there while I went into the store:

Sweet Treats - closed for the season of course, but I'll bet it's a busy place in the summertime:

Adirondack Auto Parts:

St. Mary's Parish Cemetery (there were at least two of them in town):

By then I was in the residential area, about which I'll post more tomorrow: