The history that surrounds Lake George is a glorious and rich one. While the earliest recorded writings that describe the wonders of the Lake were written by Europeans, historians believe that Native Americans inhabited the area surrounding the Lake from 3500 B.C.

Lake George is apparently the third name attached to the lake. St. Isaac Jogues, a Jesuit missionary from France, found that the Iroquois name for the lake was "Andiatarocte". This translates to "there where the Lake is shut in."

St. Isaac Jogues' life itself could fill many books. In brief, his missionary zeal to spread the Gospel among the Native Americans led him originally to Canada where he was tortured by the Iroquois tribes who he evangelized to. After returning to New France (present day Canada) he begged his superiors to let him return. He returned to pursue his vocation by volunteering again as an ambassador to the Mohawks.

Returning to Lake Andiatarocte on the eve of the feast of Corpus Christi on May 30, 1646, at what today is the Town of Ticonderoga at the northern end of the lake, he named the body of water, "Lac du Saint Sacrament". This translates to "Lake of the Blessed Sacrament."

A little over 4 months later, after insects destroyed their crops, the superstitious Mohawk Indians blamed Jogues and killed him and his party. Father Isaac Jogues was officially canonized a saint by the Catholic Church in 1930. A statute of him, facing the lake he once named, can be found at the Lake George Battlefield Park in Lake George Village.

By the late seventeenth century the route through Lake George was used frequently by Native Americans allied with the French for raids on English villages. This rivalry between the French and English for control of North America finally culminated in the French and Indian War (1755-1763).

In 1755 British General William Johnson changed the name of the lake to Lake George in honor of King George II of Great Britain. The lake's history figured prominently at the beginning of the American experience. As a natural waterway it was immersed in the larger political and military struggle for the continent. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere, Charles Carroll, and Robert Rogers are but a few of the names of early American history who have beheld her shores.

From the earliest days of travel on Lake George, military history has been interwoven with the tourist trade. Because of the mountains that ring its shores, travel historically up and down the lake was most convenient by boat. It was a long and arduous path to traverse the same distance over land.

Huletts Landing is so named because it was settled by the Hulett family. Colonel Hulett was an officer in the Revolutionary War who was given the property in payment for his faithful service through a land grant by the cash strapped Continental Congress. Because the property was only able to be reached by boat, after traveling up the lake, the property he and his descendants settled became known as "Huletts Landing". The remains of many members of the Hulett family, some dating back to the early 19th century, are buried in the Mountain Grove Memorial Church's cemetery in Huletts Landing.

Those who settled the area farmed the land and, because of its natural beauty, began taking in guests. A portion of the Kapusinski's present residence was originally constructed in 1873 by Philander Hulett who had begun taking in borders. The picture below was taken approximately 1900.

A bigger hotel, named the Hulett's House, was built around 1900 to accommodate the increasing numbers of tourists who wanted to visit. This was replaced by a second larger hotel, the Huletts Hotel, constructed in the 1920's. It now had additional ancillary structures associated with it, such as a dormitory for its employees.

The two pictures below, both from the 1950's, show the size of the Huletts Hotel.

During the late 1940's the Huletts Hotel was sold to a collective group of individuals who were organized as the "Huletts Landing Corporation". This corporation failed because the group ownership did not have the necessary business experience to operate it successfully and the individuals leading it were not able to agree on a host of issues.

Only one individual investor in this group, George H. Eichler, had the resources necessary to purchase the entire property at the time of this group's failure. Mr. Eichler, a successful publisher of oil industry trade magazines, bought the property in 1953 with his wife, Margaret. In 1959 they took the Huletts Hotel down after a property tax disagreement with the Town. Over the next two decades the Eichler's developed Huletts and established the area of the Landing that to this day is known as "Eichlerville".

The Kapusinski family continues to operate Huletts-on-Lake-George today and they are pleased that the history of Huletts Landing now continues on the Internet also.