Great Colton History Web site:

http://www.townofcolton.com/history.htm

and

Colton Museum

http://homepage.mac.com/clstph/coltonhist/PhotoAlbum39.html

and

http://homepage.mac.com/clstph/coltonhist/Personal19.html

Plaindealer 1964

 

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Main Street 1909

Colton Hotel

Main Street - 1930s

Main Street 1950s/60s

Scenic View

Racquette River South Colton Skyview

Racquette River at Colton

Racquette (Racket) River below Higley Falls

Power House at Higley Falls Dam

Snell Water Plant at Higley Falls 1908

Bertrand Hollis Snell was the proprietor  - click here for more info:

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000652

and here:

Amherst Class 1894:

http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco/genealogy/acbiorecord/1894.html

Snell Power Plant

Higley Falls Dam Power House

Who was Higley?  Jesse Colton Higley was a pioneer in the area around 1824.....  http://history.rays-place.com/ny/colton-ny.htm

Above Higley Dam

Summer Camps Above Higley Falls Dam Racquette River

St Paul's Catholic Church - South Colton

South Colton Catholic Church

Catholic Church

St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church Colton

Zion Episcopal Church

Zion Church & Rectory 1912

Episcopal Church

Zion Episcopal Church

Episcopal Church

1907 Episcopal Church

 

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Jan 10, 1939:

Opening of Hepburn Library

Hepburn Library Under Construction

Hepburn Library 1914

Hepburn Library

Logging - early 1900s

North Street Colton 1910

1912 General Store

Henry Potter Home - 1907

Union Free School 1908

Colton School

Colton Pierrepont Central School

Racquette River 1912

South Colton Iron Bridge

Bridge at South Colton 1909

Racquette River Bridge South Colton

Sunday Rock

J.N. Swift's Store, South Colton

Bathing - South Colton

Post Office

General Store, Masonic Hall & PO

Maple Street

St Lawrence University's Ski Hill - Snow Bowl - 1958

Baptist Church South Colton

ME Church Colton

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St. Lawrence Plaindealer March 23, 1903:

 

1858 Map & Photos