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“The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
 
                   -- Mark Twain

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St. Lawrence County Information

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Census

 

"A History of St. Lawrence & Franklin County, New York" by Franklin Benjamin Hough - 1853 - Google Book Search

War & Military

  Please visit my War & Military page to remember some of the first settlers who served in the Revolutionary War. You will also find a list of those by town who fought in the War of 1812.   SLC had many soldiers during the Civil War & WWI who were awarded the Medal of Honor.  A link to the WWII Honor Roll listing soldiers who gave their lives is here as well.

•  French Indian

•   Revolutionary War

•   1805 Militia

•   War 1812

•   Civil War

•   Fenian Raids

•   Spanish American War

•   WWI

•   WWII

•   Cold War Atlas Missiles

          

Adirondack Fire Towers

Signal Station - Whiteface

Bald Mountain

Adirondack Photos - Link to SLU Collection

 

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Traditional Arts in Upstate NY

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Find a Friend you've lost track of

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Find Your Ancestors & other history research links:

Vital Statistics from the Gouverneur Herald

Genetic Genealogy Testing through DNA

713-868-1438

"Making of America"

1859 - 1958

(Note 1859-1862 buried in the 1871-1876 section- 0044-0155) (1869/70 - 0338-0042)

from fultonhistory.com - Tom Tryniski's site

(Many pictures of Rushton Canoes and Adirondacks)

cemetery tombstone transcriptions & photos, census, vital records, civil war soldiers lists and MORE!

(Sarah Moore's Web Site)

cemetery tombstone transcriptions

By Town or by Surname

 

England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland

UK Birth, Marriage & Death Certificates

Ship records, Immigration- Ellis Island, Castle Gardens, NY births, marriages, deaths, Brooklyn Eagle Newspaper, DAR and more, more, more!

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The Best MAPS Worldwide

Satellite Views of Earth

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Towns of NY State

Old Photos NYC

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Local On-Line News

North Country Public Radio

New York Times

MSNBC

BBC News

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Contact:

Connie Molnar Sterner

conniesterner@gmail.com

 

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Thomas Wells, Newton Martin Curtis, Dayton P Clarke, David Sprowle, Charles H Houghton, Alaric B Chapin, Follett Johnson, Charles W Dolloff, James Allen, John Gilmore, Henry S Webster, Michael Valente

 

 

North Country Winters Past

Snowy Road in Tupper Lake

Lumbering in the Adirondacks

Ski Big Tupper

Main Street Waddington

Man on Ice Jam 1905

1911 Motor Ice Boat invented by Floyd Carter - on St. Lawrence River

Winter in Gouverneur

Norfolk & St. Lawrence RR - Chase Mills

Beta House and Chapel - St. Lawrence University - Canton

Canton Main Street

Clarkson - Dorms in Winter

Massena Observer

"The Year Without a Summer" was caused by the April 1815 eruption of Tambora in Indonesia, the largest recorded volcanic eruption in history. Tambora erupted in 1815 killing 92,000 people making 1816 the year without a summer as the global climate effects were felt. Aerosols from the Tambora eruption blocked out sunlight and reduced global temperatures by 3 deg C. Europe missed a summer, and India had crop failures following the Tambora eruption. 100 cubic km of magma was erupted. Ten thousand people were killed immediately from the pyroclastic flows and the eventual toll due to starvation and disease may have been as high as 117,000. The eruption caused a tsunami with a wave height of 10 m.:

http://www.earlham.edu/~ethribe/web/tambora.htm

 

Flashback - 200 Years Ago - 1809 in our Country and in St. Lawrence County:

• James Madison was sworn in as 4th President of the U.S., while Jefferson quietly retired to his beloved Monticello. George Clinton - X- NY Governor was VP. (Uncle of DeWitt Clinton)

• Daniel D Tompkins was Governor of New York.

• Shawnee leader Tecumseh begins to establish a defensive confederacy to resist the westward movement of white settlers. 

• New England governors refuse to supply militia to enforce the Embargo Acts (of 1807 and 1808). 

• The Napoleonic Wars in Europe are well underway.

• The Illinois Territory was created.

• Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, is born in a humble Hardin, County, Kentucky log cabin to carpenter Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks on February 12, 1809.

• February 20, 1809 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the power of the Federal Government is greater than the power of any individual state.

• Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Darwin, Christopher Huston Carson (Kit Carson) were born.

• Robert Fulton patents the steamboat. The same year the first steamboat on the St. Lawrence River - the "Dalhousie" - is built in Prescott.  Meanwhile in Montreal the "Accommodation", a side wheel type steamboat is built.

• Bucks Bridge - Isaac Buck, from Shoreham Vt, a veteran of the Revolutionary War built a bridge (yes, Buck's Bridge!) and saw mill.

• Canton - Daniel Campbell was Town Supervisor

• DeKalb - Judge Cooper was killed in Albany.  Licenses were granted to Jonathan Haskins and Salmon Rich to keep taverns.  Salmon built a saw mill on Borland Creek.

• Depeyster - James Averell 2nd came from Cooperstown on pack horses and settled near Silas Kellogg's Tavern.  He opened a store in a log building.  Smith Stillwell came the same year.

• Fowler - the Hailesboro grist mill was carried away by flood.

• Gouverneur - In 1809 a clearing of 80 acres was ade in the vicinity of the Natural Dam by Joseph Bolton for Mr. Morris who erected a saw and grist mill which were know as Morris' Mill. (Gouverneur Morris traveled down the Oswegatchie River from Gouverneur to Ogdensburg by flat boat in 1808.) In the autumn of 1809 the first district school was opened and a small school was built by the Presbyterian church taught by Silas Brook. He was succeeded by Betsy Sackett who became the wife of John Parker.  John Brown opened the first store at the east end of the bridge.

• Hermon - Thomas Tanner came to Hermon.

• Hopkinton - Henry McLaughlin was Town Supervisor

• Lawrenceville - Ephraim Martin arrived and built the first saw mill.

• Madrid - Hamblin-Castle Distillery was built

• Massena - a wolf bounty of $3 was voted in.

• Norfolk - There were no roads in Norfolk, only a trail from Potsdam to Raymondville in 1809.  Erastus Hall and Ira Brewer came from Tyringham, Mass., cleared land and built a frame house near Louisville.  Eben Johnson came from Williston Vt.

• Ogdensburg - The schooner "Experiment", first boat built in the city, was launched.  Construction of the Parish mansion was underway. Joseph Rossell grants building of a school for 30 children.  The First Baptist Church was organized.

• Parishville - Town Supervisor was Joseph Crary and that year Mr. Hoard surveyed and cut a road from Potsdam to the site of Parishville village.  From Vt. and Mass. came Luke Brown, Isaac Towner, Hartwell Shattuck and Levi Sawyer.  Mr. & Mrs. Whitmore came to cook for men clearing land and two Barnes brothers built a saw mill. When settlers arrived in Parishville they found the gorge spanned by a great pine tree trunk which served as a bridge by the Indians traveling the trail to Tupper Lake for a century.  This causeway was replaced by a single span wooden bridge which served until 1868.

• Potsdam - Liberty Knowles came to Potsdam in 1809 and was admitted to the Bar the next year.  The first bridge was built across the Racquette River.  Before that people crossed on a raft.  Benjamin Raymond was Town Supervisor. In North Potsdam the Union Settlement, established in 1807,  an experiment in communistic living, was underway. The first settlers here were William Bullard, John Burroughs, Manasseh Smith, Nathan Howe, Ammi Currier, Thomas H .Currier, William Currier, Isaac Ellis, Alba Durkee, John McAllaster.  The Smiths were from Turnbridge. Vt. and were relatives of Joseph Smith the founder of the Mormans. John Smith, uncle of Joseph Smith, left the colony in Potsdam in 1809.  He later became the High Priest in Salt Lake City Utah in 1853. Another Uncle, Asael, lived in Stockholm.

• Rossie - A road to Gouverneur was built and one from Somerville to Wegatchie to Natural Dam where there was a grist mill.  A Sawmill was built in Wegatchie by Reuben Streeter.

• Russell - the state legislature  selected Russell for as a location to build an arsenal. Plans were started between James LaRay and David Parish to build the turnpike road.  Russell Atwater, Town Supervisor, was succeeded by Reuben Ashman.  The Zion Episcopal Church had 15 members and the Baptist Society was building a church, led by Samuel Rowley a Baptist Missionary from Massachusetts starting his church with 7 members.

• Stockholm - the first school district was organized.

• Waddington - Construction of David Ogden's Island House started.  Col. Mathew Myers admitted to the Bar in SLC - First Lawyer in Waddington.

Old North Country Schools

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Postcards

 (Click on Town Information on your left to find more)

Canton, Main Street, 1907

Canton, American Hotel - Built 1823

Canton, Grammar & High School

(built 1883 - torn down 1973)

Canton, Hotel Harrington

Canton, Town Hall & Opera House - Miner Inn - 1910

(burned down in 1962)

Drawing of Richardson from 1858 - St. Lawrence University & Universalist Theological School Canton

Canton, SLU 1907

Canton, Agriculture Dairy Building & Barn 1908

Canton Union Block

 (This was along Riverside Drive, then called Water Street - from 1858 Map)

Miner Block - Canton

(from 1858 Map)

Lisbon, Poultry Day 1908

Ogdensburg, Ford Street - 1918

Ogdensburg, Sandy Beach 1909

Ogdensburg, Steamer Thousand Islander

Ogdensburg, Armory

Western View of Potsdam NY - 1842

St Lawrence Academy, Presbyterian Church -  St Lawrence Academy (1858 Map)

Potsdam, Clarkson Memorial College

War of 1812 Arsenal - Russell

Tupper Lake, Saranac Club Bartlett's Carry 1912

Open Camp in Adirondacks

Massena, Barge Canal 1907

Massena, Aluminum Company 1908

Pittsburg Reduction Plant, Massena NY

United States Hotel Massena

(later became the Hatfield House)

Pyrites, Meat Market 1910

Norfolk, The Big Mill at Night - 1912

Gouverneur, Main Street

(Taft & Sherman Banner over Street)

Gouverneur, Ideal Market

Gouverneur, Marble Company

Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary, Baptist Church, School House - 1858 Map

Canton, Sherwin's Mill -early 1900s

Edwards, Grist Mill

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Water Wheels!

Meet

 Darrell Dammen

Darrell is the owner of No-Waste Society Systems. This includes hydropower and wind power to reduce the use of petro-fuels.  Darrell has a vision to rebuild Water Wheels in northern New York at historic sites to make electric energy available to the communities and to promote tourism.  He has developed a new, more efficient electric generating water wheel type hydro motor named River Harness which eliminates fish injury.  Darrel is interested in installing water wheels in Canton, Madrid, Nicholville, Brasher Falls, Potsdam,  Rossie and Lamspson Falls just to name a few of the possible upstate NY sites.  Please contact Darrell if you are interested in helping him pursue this opportunity. 

 

Darrell  Dammen

no_wastesocietysystems@yahoo.com

235 Barnhart Rd

Massena, NY  13662

phone 315-764-8699

cell 315-882-3766

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