Bolton Landing is a

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and

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in the

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Bolton Bolton ( , locally ) is a town in Greater Manchester in England. In the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, Bolton is between Manchester, Blackburn, Wigan, Bury, Greater Manchester, Bury and Salford. It is surrounded by several towns and vill ...

in Warren County, New York. It is located on Lake George in the

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. It is a common tourist destination and the closest town to the State Park lands and islands of the Lake George Narrows. The hamlet's most notable structure is The Sagamore Hotel, a renovated Victorian-era hotel. There are four public beaches, some of which are adjacent to public docks.

History

The community was founded in 1799. The Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum and Sagamore Hotel Complex are listed on the

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Geography

Bolton Landing is ten miles north of Lake George village on the west side of Lake George in the town of Bolton. The closest city is Glens Falls, south of Lake George village. New York Route 9N passes through the community.

Culture

Home of the Bolton Landing Barbershop Quartet Festival for 14 years, the international harmony singing event drew crowds and visitors from around the world and was featured on several television shows, including an hour long special in Japan. The festivals popularity reached its peak in 1999, as hundreds of barbershop enthusiasts, along with their friends and families packed into the small town of Bolton Landing for the annual Labor Day Barbershop Quartet competitions. The festival, originally started by Bolton native Andy Pratt, ended in 2002. The Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum at Bolton Landing on the shore of Lake George commemorates the internationally known Polish soprano Marcella Sembrich (1858–1935), whose favorite composers included

Vincenzo Bellini Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (; ; 3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an Italian opera composer famed for his long, graceful melodies and evocative musical settings. A central figure of the era, he was admired not only ...

and

Gaetano Donizetti Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian Romantic music, Romantic composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the ''be ...

. In addition to her career in Europe, Sembrich had more than 450 performances at the New York

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. Her lakeside summer mansion was opened as a museum in 1937 and is listed in the

. Every year since 1989, the Bolton Recreation Commission's summer free concert series in Roger's Memorial Park has been anchored by Bolton native and summer resident Matt Finley performing with his band, Rio Jazz. Since 2005, Bolton Landing has been home to the Lake George Theater Lab,https://web.archive.org/web/20180323051427/http://lakegeorgetheaterlab.com/ a theater company devoted to new American plays and adaptations. Bolton Landing was also the home of sculptor David Smith, and is where he did a large percentage of his work. Smith was introduced to the hamlet through Wilhelmina Weber Furlong, the early American avant-garde modernist painter who pioneered the modernist movement in Bolton Landing, New York at Golden Heart Farm.

References

External links

Bolton Chamber of Commerce information
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