Depauville
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A family’s decades-long upstate private island retreat is listing for the very first time
Alexander Nicolas’s salad days were slathered in a Thousand Island blessing: St. Mary’s Island. Forty years ago, his parents spotted a small fishing cabin on a speck of an island peeking out of the St. Lawrence River in Alexandria Bay, part of the zesty Thousand Islands region in northern New York, and located right on the Canadian border. The .3-acre islet had little more than a dock and a few trees; it also lacked a road bridge. They ate it up. “Our family lived upstate and we would always go to the Thousand Islands and stay in motels and hotels,” said Nicolas,...
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