Alexandria Bay, NY Shirts

From the docks at Alexandria Bay you can see it across the channel: a full-scale stone castle rising from an island, turrets and all. A hotel magnate began building it at the turn of the last century as a gift for his wife, six stories on an island shaped like a heart. When she died suddenly in 1904, he wired the island to stop all construction and never set foot there again. The unfinished castle sat open to the weather for seven decades before restoration began, and today it is the great landmark of the Thousand Islands, reachable the only way anything worth reaching is here, by boat. Alex Bay, as locals say, is the region's lively harbor town: tour boats, fishing guides, ice cream on the dock, channel lights blinking after dark. Our Alexandria Bay design sets the castle on its island against the wide river, a small boat crossing toward it, islands crowding the horizon beyond. Watch this page for Alexandria Bay businesses as they come onto ShirtMap.