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Canton, NY - tombstone inscriptions, stories
Canton, NY - tombstone inscriptions, stories
Canton, NY - tombstone inscriptions, stories
(For history research, find " CFL Historical Scrapbooks Online" on this home page and then use the search function, click on article...then page forward/backward for the article to appear..... This is a GREAT resource)
(For history research via the Potsdam Library, search the "Canton Commercial Advertiser" newspapers - another wonderful resource)
Canton's Interesting & Famous People:....more to come...
Richard Harison (one "r")
Silas Wright
William Bingham Goodrich
Lucius Moody
John Rutherford
Fred (Will) Tisdale
Ellsworth family & John Mills
Seth Pierre Remington
Frederic Remington
Salathiel Ellis
Ebenezer Miner
Darius Clark
Olin Family
Thomas Victor, Charles Hazen, Benjamin, John Hazen, John Leslie, Leslie Wead, Lawrence Russell
Irving Bacheller
(links to information about the man and to read his books on-line)
George Malby
Asa, Joshua, Jacob Conkey
Alonzo Barton Hepburn
Nathaniel, Barzillai Hodskin
Leffert Lefferts Buck
Milton Freeman
Colton, NY
(Matildaville)
Cranberry Lake, NY
DeKalb Junction, NY
Tombstone Inscriptions
"Legend of Coopers Falls" by Bryan Thompson
Depeyster, NY
Edwards, NY
Fine, NY
Fowler, NY
Gouverneur, NY
(Chambray)
Hammond, NY
Hannawa Falls, NY
Hermon, NY
(Depeau)
tombstone inscriptions and more data
Heuvelton, NY
Hopkinton, NY
&
Nicholville, NY
(1803-1808)
Lawrence, NY
(North Lawrence, Lawrenceville, Nicholville)
Lisbon, NY
Lowville, NY
(Lewis County)
Madrid
&
Waddington, NY
(Hamilton)
Hank Monk - Most Famous Stage Coach Driver in the West!
http://www.twainquotes.com/interviews/HankMonk.html
and
http://www.visitcarsoncity.com/history/people/hank_monk.php
Macomb & Popes Mills, NY
Massena, NY
(& Louisville)
1855/58 Maps
Long Sault Island
Barnhart Island
Morley, NY
(Long Rapids)
Morristown, NY
(Hague)
Newton Falls, NY
Norfolk, NY
George P Kelley
Norwood, NY
(Racquetteville)
George F Molnar
(this links to a great site)
Ogdensburg, NY
(Oswegatchie)
7 Years War
French Indian War
(1754 - 1763)
War of 1812
Oswegatchie, NY
Parishville, NY
Pierrepont, NY
(named for Hezekiah B. Pierrepont)
& Crary Mills, NY
Pitcairn, NY
Potsdam, NY
General Edwin A Merritt & Son
Pyrites, NY
(High Falls)
Rensselaer Falls, NY
(also once known as Canton Falls & Tateville - named after a forge built by Robert Tate, Chaffee Co)
Richville, NY
Civil War Colonel and Senator
Rossie, NY
Russell, NY
(Ballybeen)
John H Spring - Jean Batisse Ranger Genealogy - Early 1800s
Star Lake, NY
Stockholm, NY
Tupper Lake, NY
(Franklin County)
Winthrop, NY
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Iroquois Nation
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