An Unlikely Location
Why would a sign at the limits of a sleepy upstate New York hamlet on the eastern edge of the Adirondack Mountains claim the village as the "Birthplace of the U.S. Navy"? This must be a familiar thought for tourists driving along U.S. Route 4 through Whitehall—some 200 miles north of New York City and 150 miles overland from the nearest approach of the Atlantic Ocean, off Maine.
