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Clinton County New York
Welcome to Clinton 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
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Clinton, County, New York Situated in the north east
part of the state, and contains 932 square miles. It has Lower
Canada on its n., and Lake Champlain on its east border. The
south part is elevated and hilly; the north and east parts are
more level, and are well cultivated. Iron ore of a superior
quality is found in the south west part of the county. Watered
by Saranac, Chazy and Great and Little Au-sable rivers, which
afford extensive water power. Organized in 1783. Lake Champlain
affords great facilities for trade. Capital, Plattsburg. There
were in 1840, neat cattle 21,013, sheep 55,555, swine 17,795;
wheat 75,293 bush, produced, rye 31,972, Indian corn 81,431,
buckwheat 39,429, barley 13,239, oats 145,226, potatoes 484,325,
hops 1,434 pounds, sugar 184,934; 117 stores, capitol $466,640;
6 furnaces, 21 bloomeries, forges, &c, employing a capital
$231,150; 8 fulling mill, 7 woolen facories, 2 cotton factories,
1,200 sp., 21 tanneries, 1 brewery, 1 glass factory, 1 pottery,
1 flouring mill, 17 grist mills, 166 saw mills, 2 printing
offices, 2 weekly newspapers. Capital in manufac. $661,465. 3
acadmies 151 students, 103 schools, 2,957 scholars. Population
23,157. 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 Clinton County
Settlements and Settlers<New>
Clinton
County Organization <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 even the new
Suffolk,
or 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all the Counties of New York, ones that are many years out of
date will be unlinked on the County Page and new counties added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
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information there. Please check back often as we are
working as fast as our fingers can type!!
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