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How Graphite Mining in New York’s Champlain Valley Created America’s Iconic Pencil
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How graphite mining in New York's Champlain Valley created America's iconic pencil - Adirondack Almanack
The Champlain Valley once served as a major source for the material with which pencils make their marks on paper— graphite. There’s no exact date for the discovery of graphite in the region. Likely native populations found some and used it to mark on various mediums. There are stories of area farmers finding black smears in snow, then tracing them to further deposits on the ground. I found one reference to graphite in Ticonderoga and environs …
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