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Franklin County New York
Welcome to Franklin County New York History &
Genealogy Project, presently the webmaster for AHGP will
be taking care of this page as our past State Coordinators
health wouldn't allow her to continue. If you would be
interested in the state or taking on some counties, please use
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Franklin, County, N. Y. Situated in the north
east part of the state, and contains 1,527 square miles. The
surface is hilly or mountainous, except in the north part, where
it is level, or gently undulating. The soil is various, but much
of it a sandy loam and very productive. Drained by Saranac River
east, and by Chateaugay, Salmon, Trout, Deer, St. Regis, and
Racket rivers north. Capital, Malone. There were in 1840, neat
cattle 17,800, sheep 39,024, swine 12,213; wheat 64,414 bush,
produced rye 15,017, Indian corn 55,537, buckwheat 22,685,
barley 4,084, oats 89,204, potatoes 468,706, hops 25,021 pounds,
sugar 227,049; 40 stores, capitol $163,581; 2 furnaces, 4
forges, 8 fulling mills, 3 woolen factories, 15 tanneries, 17
grist mills, 42 saw mills, 1 oil moll, 2 printing offices, 2
weekly newspapers. Capitol in manufacturing $145,798. 1 academy,
111 schools, 4,749 scholars. Population 16,518.
A
Complete Descriptive And Statistical Gazetteer Of The United
States Of America, By Daniel Haskel, A. M and J. Calvin
Smith, Published By Sherman & Smith, 1843, New York.
What's New in Franklin County
City & Town Organization<New>
First Settlements & Settlers<New>
Online Here or
Other Sites
If you are looking for other Towns and
Villages, go to our county list and check out Tim's pages for
Cortland and
Sullivan County or the new counties of
Clinton and
Franklin
We are also in the process of updating
all the Counties of New York, ones that are many years out of
date will be unlinked on the County Page and new counties added
in their place. There will still be directions to the old
pages, because the owner hasn't removed them or updated, and the
Host site will not remove the pages even if there isn't
information there. Please check back often as we are
working as fast as our fingers can type!!
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