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CHESTERFIELD
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
Area: 105 square miles
High point: Bitch Mountain 2,500 feet
Principle waterway: AuSable River
Settled: 1792
Formed: 1802
Town Hall: P.O. Box 456,
Keeseville, NY 12944
(518)834-9042
Population: 1850: 4,171
2000: 2,409
Major industry: shipping, manufacturing, tourism
Named for: Since many of the town's early settlers were from New England, the town name may reflect other towns in New England. There is a Chester and a Chesterfield in Massachusetts.
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WILLSBORO
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
Area: 72 square miles
High point: Sugarloaf Mountain 1,467 feet
Principle waterways: Boquet River, Black River
Settled: 1765, William Gilliland
Formed: 1788
Boundary changes: 1792, 1798, 1799, 1802, 1805
Town Hall: 1 Farrell Rd.
Willsboro, NY 12996
(518)963-8668
Population: 1850: 1,932,
2000: 1,903
Major industry: agriculture, quarries, lumber, tourism
Named for: William Gilliland
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ESSEX
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
Area: 38 square miles
High point: South Boquet Mountain 1,217 feet>
Principle waterway: Boquet River
Settled: 1765, William Gilliland
Formed: 1805
Town Hall: 355 Main St.,
Essex, NY 12936
(518)963-4287
Population: 1850: 2351,
2000: 713
Major industry: manufacturing, tourism,
farming, quarrying
Named for: Other New England settlements named Essex
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WESTPORT
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW York
Area: 68 square miles
High point: Moore Mountain 1,841 feet
Principle waterways: Black River, Boquet River
Settled: 1804, Charles Hatch
Formed: 1815
Town Hall: 22 Champlain St.,
Westport, NY 12993
(518)962-4419
Population: 1850: 2,352,
2000: 1,362
Major industry: shipping, lumber, iron ore,
medicinal springs, tourism
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MORIAH
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
Area: 73 square miles
High point: Lock Mountain 2055 feet
Principle waterway: Lake Champlain
Settled: 1785, William McKenzie
Formed: 1808
Boundary changes: 1828, 1848, 1849
Town Hall: 38 Park Place,
Port Henry, NY 12974
(518)546-8631
Population: 1850: 3,065,
2000: 4,879
Major industry: mining, lumber, shipping, recreation
Named for: Two sources for the name are cited: a district in Palestine; and the mountain on which Abraham was commanded to sacrifice Isaac
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CROWN POINT
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
Area: 79 square miles
High point: Moose Mountain
Principle waterway: Putnams Creek
Settled: 1731
Formed: 1786
Boundary changes: 1798, 1804, 1808
Town Hall: P.O. Box 443,
Crown Point, NY 12928
(518)597-3035
Population: 1850: 2,378,
2000: 2,119
Major industry: mining, agriculture, tourism
Named for: French Fort, Point au Chevalure (crown of the head)
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TICONDEROGA
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
Area: 88 square miles
High point: Treadway Mountain 2,248 feet
Principle waterways: Lake Champlain, Lake George,
LaChute River, Trout Brook
Settled: 1775, Samuel Deall
Formed: 1804
Town Hall: 132 Montcalm St.,
Ticonderoga, NY 12883
(518)585-6265
Population: 1850: 2,669,
2000: 5,167
Major industry: lumber, leather, black lead, paper,
tourism, military
Named for: corruption of an Indian word, variously reported to mean "brawling waters" and "between lakes"
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LEWIS
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
Area: 84 square miles
High point: Jay Mountain 3,600 feet
Principle waterway: North Branch of the Boquet River
Settled: 1796>
Formed: 1805
Boundary changes: 1844, 1854
Town Hall: P.O. Box 59,
Lewis, NY 12950
(518)873-6777
Population: 1850: 2,058,
2000: 1,200
Major industry: mining, lumber
Named for: Morgan Lewis, then NYS Governor
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ELIZABETHTOWN
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
Area: 82 square miles
High point: Rocky Peak Ridge, 4,000 feet
Principle waterway: Boquet River
Settled: 1792
Formed: 1798
Boundary changes: 1808, 1815, 1844, 1854
Town Hall: P.O. Box 265,
Elizabethtown NY 12932
(518)873-6555
Population: 1850: 1,635,
2000: 1,315
Major industry: government, law, surveying,
light industry, and tourism.
Named for: Elizabeth, the given name of William Gilliland's wife and daughter. Another daughter, Charlotte who married Stephen Cuyler, lent her name to Charlotte, Vt.
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NORTH HUDSON
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
Area: 190 square miles
High point: Dix Mountain 4,857 feet
Principle waterway: Schroon River
Settled: 1800
Formed: 1848
Town Hall: P.O. Box 60,
North Hudson, NY 12855
(518)532-9811
Population: 1850: 561,
2000: 266
Major industries: lumber, tanning, tourism
Named for: Its geographical location North of the Hudson. Also, a town named Hudson was already in existence when North Hudson was formed.
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SCHROON
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
Area: 142 square miles
High point: Hoffman Mountain 3,683 feet
Principle waterway: Schroon River
Settled: 1797, Simeon Rawson
Formed: 1804
Boundary changes: 1817, 1855, 1840, 1861, 1871
Town Hall: P.O. Box 578,
Schroon, NY 12870
(518)532-7737
Population: 1850: 2,031,
2000: 1,759
Major industries: lumber, tanneries, forges, tourism
Named for: Named by early French explorers for the Widow Scarron at the French Court, well known as Madame Maintenon in the reign of Louis XIV or from an Iroquois word meaning "largest lake"
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MINERVA
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
Area: 158 square miles
High Point: Vanderwhacker Mountain 3,600 feet
Principle waterways: Hudson, Indian and Boreas Rivers
Settled: 1804, Ebenezer West
Formed: 1828
Boundary changes: 1828, 1870, 1915, 1958
Town Hall: PO Box 6,
Olmstedville, NY 12857
(518)251-2869
Population: 1850: 586,
2000: 796
Major industry: potash, lumbering, mining
Named for: Minerva, the Goddess of Wisdom
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NEWCOMB
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
Area: 224 square miles
High point: Santanoni Mountain 4,607 feet
Principle waterway: Hudson River
Settled: 1816
Formed: 1828>
Town Hall: P.O. Box 405,
Newcomb, NY 12852
(518)582-3211
Population: 1850: 277,
2000: 481
Major industry: mining, lumber, tourism
Named for: Daniel T. Newcomb, the first supervisor
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NORTH ELBA
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
Area: 155 square miles
High point: Algonquin Mountain 5,114 feet
Principle waterways: AuSable River, Chubb River
Settled: 1800, Elijah Bennett
Formed: 1849
Town Hall: 301 Main St.,
Lake Placid, NY 12946
(518)523-9516
Population: 1850: 210,
2000: 8,661
Major industry: mining, lumber, tourism, sports
Named for: The Mediterranean Isle of Elba
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KEENE
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
Area: 160 square miles
High point: Mt. Marcy 5,344 feet (highest peak
in NY State)
Principle waterways: AuSable River, Boquet River
Settled: 1797, Benjamin Payne
Formed: 1808
Boundary changes: 1848
Town Hall: P.O. Box 89,
Keene NY, 12942
(518)576-4444
Population: 1850: 798,
2000: 1,063
Major industry: lumber, farming, tourism
Named for: Keene, NH which was named for Sir Benjamin Keene, British Consul to Madrid and later diplomat to Portugal.
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SAINT ARMAND
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
Area: 57 square miles
High point: Mount Alton 3,237 feet
Principle waterway: Saranac River
Settled: 1842
Formed: 1844
Town Hall: P.O. Box 338,
Bloomingdale, NY 12913
(518)891-3189
Population: 1850: 210,
2000: 1,321
Major industry: lumber, farming, health care
Named for: St. Armand, Canada
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WILMINGTON
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
Area: 65 square miles
High point: Whiteface Mountain 4,872 feet
Principle waterway: AuSable River
Settled: 1800
Formed: 1821
Boundary change: 1844
Town Hall: P.O. Box 180,
Wilmington, NY 12997
(518)946-7174
Population: 1850: 1,176,
2000: 1,131>
Major industry: distillery, recreation, iron mining, forge
Named for: first named Dansville, changed on Mar. 22, 1822 to Wilmington for Wilmington, Delaware, which was named for Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, a member of the privy chamber
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JAY
ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK
Area: 67 square miles
High point: Jay Mountain 3,300 feet at the Lewis, Elizabethtown, Jay corner
Principle waterway: AuSable River
Settled: 1796, Mallory
Formed: 1798
Boundary changes: 1808, 1822
Town Hall: P.O. Box 730,
AuSable Forks, NY 12912
(518)647-2204
Population: 1850: 2,688,
2000: 2,306
Major industry: lumber, iron processing and
mining, quarries.
Named for: John Jay, then Governor, later Chief Justice of the United States
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