Clinton County

Altona Town Historian Address: 77 Station St., P.O. Box 197, Altona, NY 12910 Telephone: (518) 236-7420 Contact: Bridgette Coolidge Position: Town Historian Business hours: By appointment. Collection: Books and files (located in town hall library), press collection on the Ganienkeh Indian settlement, including material on Iroquois confederacy and the White Roots of Peace. Restrictions: Anderson Falls Heritage Society Address: 1790, Route 22, Suite 3/4, Keeseville, NY 12944 Telephone: (518) 834-7342 Contact: Roby Scott Position: Treasurer Business hours: By appointment. Collection: General collection of pictures, publications, maps, memorabilia, and artifacts concerning the local area. Restrictions: Under supervision. Beekmantown Town Hall Address: 571 Spellman Rd., West Chazy, NY 12992 Telephone: (518) 563-4650 Contact: Addie L. Shields Position: Historian Business Hours: 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. advanced notice appreciated. Collection: Birth, death and marriage records start in the 1880s but are not open to the public. For an $11 fee the town clerk can make a search for an individual in the records. Town minutes start in the 1820s and are open to the public. Restrictions: Materials inspected. Black Brook Town Historian Address: 18 North Main St., AuSable Forks, NY 12912 Telephone: (518) 647-5411, ext. 23 Contact: Doris Akey Position: Town Historian Business hours: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Collection: Some cemetery records, photographs of the area, tapes, newspaper clippings. Restrictions: Material must be used under supervision. Champlain Memorial Library Address: 148 Elm St., P.O. Box 279, Champlain, NY 12919 Telephone: (518) 298-8620 Contact: Alison Mandeville Position: Library Director E-Mail: champlib@primelink1.net Business hours: Tuesday, 1:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.; Wednesday, noon - 5:00 p.m.; Thursday, 3:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.; Closed Monday, Friday and Sunday. Collection: Cemetery records, and some local history. Restrictions: Reference only. Champlain Town Historian Address: 729 Rt. 9, P.O. Box 3144, Champlain, NY 12919 Telephone: (518) 298-8160 Contact: Julie Castine E-Mail: jcastine@primelink1.net Position: Town Clerk/Tax Collector Other Contacts: Roy Clark, 121 Clark Rd., Champlain, NY 12919 Business hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Collection: Maps, census, printed materials on early settlers, and other items. Restrictions: May not be removed from premises. Champlain Valley Transportation Museum Address: 12 Museum Way, Plattsburgh, NY 12903 Telephone: (518) 566-7575 Contact: Ralph Russano Position: Curator & Collections Manager Business hours: Tuesday thru Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Collection: The museum examines and celebrates all things that are transport, from barges and steam ferries, to the D&H rail lines and military transportation, as well as the Lozier Motor Company Gallery. Website: www.cvtmuseum.com Champlain Village Historian Address: 25 Moore St., Champlain, NY 12919 Telephone: (518) 298-4036 Contact: Joseph Patrie Position: Village Historian Business hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Call for appointment. Collection: Village of Champlain maps, census, printed materials on early settlers. Listing of deaths, Champlain - St. Mary's Cemetery, Church St. and Prospect St., Glenwood Cemetery; Coopersville - St. Joseph's Cemetery; and Rouses Point - Maple Hill Cemetery and St. Patrick's Cemetery. Listing of veterans in Clinton County. Restrictions: Chazy Town Historian Address: P.O. Box 219, Chazy, NY 12921 Telephone: (518) 846-7544, ext. 6 Contact: Robert Cheeseman Position: Town Historian E-Mail: chazyhistorian@westelcom.com Business hours: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30 a.m. - noon; Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.; or by special appointment. Collection: Comprehensive collection dealing with Chazy and surrounding towns from early 1800s. Restrictions: In office use only, no loans. Clinton County Historian Address: Clinton County Government Center, 137 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, NY 12901 Telephone: (518) 565-4749, or home: (518) 563- 7178; Fax: (518) 564-4616 Contact: Addie Shields Position: County Historian Business hours: Monday thru Wednedsay, or by appointment. Collection: Histories, maps, files, McLellan Cemetery Records of Clinton County with index, plus islands of the lake. Restrictions: Not to be removed from premises. Clinton County Historical Association and Museum Address: 98 Ohio Ave., Plattsburgh, NY 12903 Telephone: (518) 561-0340 Contact: Maurica Gilbert Position: Treasurer Email: director@clintoncountyhistorical.org Business hours: Office: Monday thru Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Museum: Tuesday thru Friday, noon - 2:00 p. m. Collections: Clinton County Historical Museum is a small local history museum whose mission is to interpret, preserve, and publicize the history of the county. The collections, dating from the late 18th century, contain maps, paintings, prints, furniture, textiles, glass and ceramics, underwater archaeological finds, military and naval artifacts, and Native American archaeological collections. Restrictions: By bona fide researchers and scholars. By appointment. Website: www.clintoncountyhistorical.org Clintonville Town Historian Address: 1302 Rt. 9N, Clintonville, NY 12924 Telephone: (518) 834-5267 Contact: Levi White Position: Town Historian Business hours: Collection: Winter Ore Mine historical artifacts - information obtained from digs of iron ore mines of Clintonville, Arnold Hill area, made with Dr. Pollard of the Plattsburgh Sun. Historical Pictures and other collections of the Clintonville area. Restrictions: Dannemora , Village of Address: P.O. Box 411, Dannemora, NY 12929 Telephone: (518) 492-7000 (home) Contact: Eric Jarvis Position: Historian Business hours: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. daily; closed weekends and holidays. Collection: Some photos and material relating to the village. Restrictions: Not to be removed from office without permission. Kent-Delord House Museum Address: 17 Cumberland Avenue, Plattsburgh, NY 12901 Telephone: (518) 561-1035 Contact: John Krueger Position: Director E-mail: jkruegervt@msn.com Business Hours: Tuesday thru Friday, noon - 3:30 p.m. Collection: The museum collection consists of the artifacts acquired by members of the Delord family during the time they owned the house, from 1810 to 1913. It includes 18th and 19th century American furniture, portrait paintings,porcelain, silver, glassware, decorative objects, personal possessions of the family, family photographs, and a library of approximately 3,000 books dating from the mid-18th to the early 20th century. Approximately 30,000 letters and family documents are in storage at the Special Collections Library at Plattsburgh State University of New York. Restrictions: The collection is open to scholars and researchers by appointment only. Materials may be used on-site only. Website: www.kentdelordhouse.org

[Alice T.] Miner Museum Address: P.O. Box 628, 9618 Main St., Chazy, NY 12921 Telephone: (518) 846-7336 Contact: Amanda Palmer Position: Director E-mail: minermuseum@westelcom.com Business hours: Visitation to the museum is by guided tour only with tours at 10:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. The museum is open from February 1 thru December 22. Collection: The fifteen-room Colonial Revival House Museum features a classic Colonial kitchen where family life once centered around the hearth. Other rooms show samplers, silhouettes, china, other decorative arts and furniture primarily from the 18th and 19th centuries, along with letters and memorabilia from American presidents and other notables. Website: www.minermuseum.org Mooers Town Historian Address: P.O. Box 242, 2508 Rt. 11, Mooers Town Office Complex, Mooers, NY 12958 Telephone: (518) 236-7927, Ext. 108 Contact: Carol Nedeau Position: Town Historian E-Mail: mooershistorian@primelink1.net Business hours: Weekdays, 10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., or by appointment. Collection: Housed in historian's office. Mooers McLellan Cemetery records; various Mooers census; Odelltown, Que. census-1851; Mooers yearbooks and news clippings; Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) meeting records; old photos and postcards of Mooers and Mooers Forks. Restrictions: Materials do not ciculate from historian's office. > Northern NY American-Canadian Geneological Society Address: P.O. Box 1256, Keeseville Civic Center, (on Main Street), Plattsburgh, NY 12901 Telephone: (518) 834-5401 or (518) 236-7567 Contact: Gloria Pratt or Julie Dowd Position: President, Librarian E-Mail: Ms. Pratt: GRCP@Charter.net (or) Ms. Dowd: dunott@aol.com Business hours: April 1 thru Oct. 30; Wednesday, 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., and Saturday, 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Also open during the winter months by appointment for members. Two weeks advance notice is appreciated. Collection: Being primarily (but not exclusively) French Canadian, marriage repertoires from most parishes of Quebec, also some birth and burial records. Loiselle marriage index (microfiche), assorted NYS and Quebec censuses (microfilm), some marriage repertoires from Ontario, publications of 30 allied Genealogical Societies (exchanges), and many books of interest on histories and vital records of Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts. Repertoires of marriages, burials and baptisms of an ever increasing number of area Catholic churches. Few repertoires from non-Catholic sources. They are constantly compiling area church records from the beginning of each parish through 1925. These are being done by the current membership, published by NNYACGS, and available for purchase. Records of Drouin, Jette,Tanguay plus PRDH are on CD (1600-1799); cemetery records by McLellan and others from Clinton County. In the process of compiling records from Vermont and Quebec plus many New York counties. Approximately 200 genealogies, ranging from a few family group sheets to two volume published works. Several New York and Vermont repertoires and histories. Census from Essex, Franklin and Clinton counties up to 1930; census for Vermont, Chittenden and Grand Isle counties up to 1930. Restrictions: Membership is not encouraged, but the library is open to all. Non-members will be charged a minimal fee of $5.00 per person, per visit. Microfilm/microfiche copier and reader. Website: www.nnyacgs.com Peru Town Historian Address: Town Hall, 3036 North Main Street, Peru, NY 12972 Telephone: (518) 643-3745, ext. 113 (office), (518) 561-0038 (home) Contact: Ronald Allen Position: Town Historian E-mail: perutownhistorian@charter.net Business hours: Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. - noon, or by appointment. Collection: Housed in historian's office, Peru Town Hall. McLellan Cemetery records, 3 vol. History of Peru, Peru yearbooks, church records, scrapbooks, news clippings, maps, old photos and postcards of Peru, Hurd's History of Clinton and Franklin Counties, NY, and some family genealogies. Restrictions: Materials do not circulate from historian's office. Plattsburgh City Historian Address: 62 Prospect Avenue, Plattsburgh, NY 12901 Telephone: (518) 563-5794 Contact: James Bailey Position: City Historian E-mail: baileyj@westelcom.com Business hours: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. at the Plattsburgh Public Library Local History Room. Collection: The historical documents given to or collected by the city historian are deposited in the local history collection of the Plattsburgh Public Library. Restrictions: Materials do not circulate from the Local History Room. Plattsburgh Public Library Address: 19 Oak St., G. Glyndon Cole Local History Room, Plattsburgh, NY 12901 Telephone: (518) 563-0921 Contact: Stan Ransom Position: Director E-mail: sransom@cityofplattsburgh-ny.gov Business hours: Monday, Friday and Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Collection: Printed material relating to the city of Plattsburgh, the Adirondacks, and the Champlain Valley. Manuscript material relating to Plattsburgh, and Clinton and Essex counties. Includes historical material, such as William Gilliland's original journal 1765-1793, general store accounts book, papers of a former mayor, deeds, indenture bonds, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, etc. Genealogical material including manuscript data and narrative family histories, photocopies of Clinton County cemetery records, etc. Large scrapbook collection with much historical and genealogical material, partially indexed. Archives of the Plattsburgh Public Library. Small photo and print collection. Card file subject indexes to manuscripts and to names in books that are not indexed. Restrictions: Restrictions: Materials must be formally requested and retrieved by staff. ID required. Website: www.plattsburghlib.org Plattsburgh Town Historian Address: 151 Banker Rd., Plattsburgh, NY 12901 Telephone: (518) 562-6887, ext. 887 Contact: Arnold Jubert Position: Town Historian Business hours: Monday thru Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m., or by appointment. Collection: Scrapbooks containing news clippings dating to the mid 1960s, cemetery records, county and local history, newsletters, town and village records. Restrictions: Records may not be removed from the Town Hall. Rouses Point Village Historian Address: P.O. Box 185, 139 Lake St., Rouses Point, NY 12979 Telephone: (518) 297-5502 Contact: Donna Racine Position: Historian Business hours: By appointment. Collection: Cemetery records of the Town of Champlain (McLellan); 30 bound volumes of "North Countryman" newspaper (1928-1980); books pertaining to Lake Champlain area; booklets of local interest; scrapbooks of news items 1980-; oral tapes of people in the community, Rouse family genealogies, and 16 volumes covering almost every state in the union. Restrictions: Schuyler Falls Town Historian Address: 997 Mason St., P.O. Box 99, Morrisonville, NY 12962 Telephone: (518) 563-1129; Fax: (518) 561-7845 Contact: Marvin Connor Position: Town Historian E-Mail: sfhistorian@charter.net Business hours: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Collection: All cemeteries and burial records; genealogy of Turners, Broadwells, and Everest families. Artifacts, books, information on early settlers, genealogical files, letters and manuscripts, military/veteran information, printed materials, scrapbooks, and tapes. Restrictions: Normal: nothing to be removed from building. State University of New York Plattsburgh Address: Special Collections, Feinberg Library, SUNY Plattsburgh, 2 Draper Ave., Plattsburgh, NY 12901 Telephone: (518) 564-5206 Contact: Debra Kimok Position: Special Collections Librarian E-mail: debra.kimok@plattsburgh.edu Business hours: Closed Sunday. Monday, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.; Tuesday, 1:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.; Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., and 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.; Saturday, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Hours change when classes are not in session. Please contact the library for specifics.) Collection: Special collections focuses on the Northern New York State counties of Clinton, Essex, and Franklin; and the Adirondack and Champlain Valley regions. They also house general materials on New York State. They collect information in a variety of formats, including monographs, periodicals, pamphlets and other ephemera, audio and video materials, photographs, maps, and manuscripts. Special Collections card catalogs index manuscript guides, pamphlets, and local newspapers. Article-by-article indexing of periodicals relating to New York State. In addition to local history materials, Special Collections also contains the College Archives, the SUNY Plattsburgh thesis collection, rare books, and the Rockwell Kent Collection. Special Collections services include patron assistance (available during all hours that the collection is open), referral to other historical collections as needed, and individual and group orientation to the collection. Restrictions: Since Special Collections is a research collection, materials do not circulate. We welcome community researchers. Photocopying and photograph reproduction services are generally available. Archival security measures in force, i.e. patron registration, check bags, use pencils for notes. Website: www.plattsburgh.edu/library/specialcollections

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