Court House 1948
Gutted by second fire 1925 - rebuilt
Court House - now County Clerk's Building
St. Lawrence County Clerk Building
Court Street 1910
Old Jail
From a March 26, 1921 Plaindealer article "Stillman Foote's Marble Industry" "..The marble industry in Canton for many years lay dormant, to be revived again in the late seventies. In later years a fine grade of building marble was discovered in the town a few miles south of this village which was eventually quarried quite extensively in what was known as the Stevens quarry ...owned and operated by E.E. Stevens...the mill was right at the quarry and was steam operated.....among buildings was the County Jail"
SLC Jail
Old Jail 1913
Inside the Old Court Room
Court House
St. Lawrence Plaindealer Dec 19, 1944 "Fifty Years Ago" 1894
Court House with Fountain 1907
St Lawrence Plaindealer, May 30, 1944 & Aug 22, 1944 "Fifty Years Ago - 1897 & 1894"
St. Lawrence Plaindealer June 21, 1893
St. Lawrence Plaindealer Apil 10, 1895
Court House Square
Court House
Court House - 1920
Court House
Court House
Gouverneur Press 1882
St. Lawrence Plaindealer Sept 5, 1933
St. Lawrence Plaindealer Jan 18, 1938
St. Lawrence Plaindealer Dec 5, 1944
1858 Clerks Office, HG Baldwin Clerk - Court House - Jail, P Converse Sheriff - by EK Hough - Daguerrean & Ambrotype - Artist over B Hodskin's Store
Etching from 1858 Map -From Actual Surveys by AE Rogerson CE 1858 - Published by JB Shields - Minor St, Philadelphia
Albany Evening Journal - June 12, 1832
- Anti Masonic Convention
Franklin Gazette 1852
Court House, County Clerk Office & Jail
SLC - L.H. Everts 1878
To read the details click here
Malone Gazette, Feb 24, 1893
Malone Gazette Feb 7, 1852 - reprint from Ogdensburg Sentinel & Potsdam Journal
St. Lawrence Plaindealer March 1, 1893
St. Lawrence Plaindealer March 2, 1943 - "50 Years Ago"
From an 1885 Map -
30 years later than the drawing above - shows first Courthouse with pillars and jail
(5) Methodist Church,(7) Court House (8) Clerk's Office, (9) County Jail, and below (10) Union School, (17) Commercial House
To read Linda Casserly's History on the Court Houses click here:
http://www.courts.state.ny.us/courts/4jd/stlawrence/history.shtml
History of the Sheriff's office "Hangings for convicted murders were carried out by the sheriff until 1892.....The gallows were located near where the old smoke stacks of the central heating plant now stand....during Prohibition bootleggers were held in Canton.......illegal Chinese prisoners deported out of the US from San Francisco...." TO READ MORE CLICK HERE:
http://www.co.st-lawrence.ny.us/Sheriff/history.htm
According to "History of St Lawrence County, NY' by LH Everts, 1878, pg 200 - "Van Van Dyke, who was hung at Canton on Friday, Dec 21, 1877 for the murder of his wife, was, at the time of the murder, at work upon the farm of Mrs. Daily in the town of Oswegatchie."
"John Donnovan was legally executed at Canton, April 16, 1852, for murdering James Rowley in Potsdam village, January 23, 1852. They had been drinking freely and quarreled over their beer and exchanged blows, but had apparently become reconciled and parted friends. Donnovan; however, followed Rowley and inflicted several wounds with a jack knife which proved fatal." Click here to read more:
http://history.rays-place.com/ny/potsdam-1-ny.htm
1859
(Seth Pierre Remington Printer)
Thomas Victor Russell was the Prosecuting Attorney
St. Lawrence Plaindealer Feb 22, 1938:
Canton Commercial Advertiser 1943
Canton Commercial Advertiser 1948
Gouverneur Press 1991
New York Times 1858
From "The Village of Canton as it Appeared a Century Ago" written in 1928 by Richard C. Ellsworth found on the Scrapbook page of Canton Free Library's Web site:
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Legislature gave Canton permission to have the county court house in 1828. Built in 1829 by land donated by David C. Judson, (from Ogdensburg - banker and real estate developer - Canton's Judson Street named after him) it was expanded in 1850 and destroyed by fire in 1892.(or another date I've seen published for this fire was Feb 21, 1893) Read more on the link above -Court House History by Linda Casserly.
David C Judson - Anne Cady's Ogdensburg Cemetery page click here:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~stlawgen/CEMETERY/Ogdensburgh/Ogdensburghhk.HTM
David Judson - Dekalb History - 1807 Town Electors click here:
http://www.history.rays-place.com/ny/de-kalb-ny.htm