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Abolitionist and Underground Railroad Conductor Wendell Lansing, Founder of the Essex County Republican Wendell Lansing
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Herbert Estes, William G. Pomeroy Foundation Marker Herbert Estes resided here 1885-1916.
Machinist, Inventor, Mill Owner & Church Leader
Union Soldier Diarist while prisoner during Civil War
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19th century Potsdam Sandstone residence of Herbert Estes on Mace Chasm Road, AuSable Chasm, Essex County, New York 19th century Potsdam Sandstone residence of Herbert Estes located at 1131 Mace Chasm Road.
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Deacon Herbert Estes reads the Bible with grandsons, Ralph and Harry Estes, in his parlor at his Mace Chasm Road residence in 1914. Herbert Estes reads the Bible to his grandsons in his home, which is now the North Star Underground Railroad Museum , 1131 Mace Chasm Rd, Ausable Chasm, Essex County, New York.
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Deacon Herbert and Harriet Manley Howard Estes Herbert and Harriet Manley Howard Estes
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Keeseville Old Cemetery The Keeseville Old Cemetery contains interments of early Protestant settlers to Clinton County, New York.
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Keeseville Old Cemetery, AuSable, Clinton County, N.Y. This cemetery ws visited by H. & W. McLellan on Aug. 27, 1938 and April 26, 1941.
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Eleanor Spaulding Footstool Eleanor Spaulding Footstool from her Peru residence.
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Emily D. Baker Emily Baker is a graduate student at the University of Vermont.
She was a National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom intern in the summer of 2022.
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Col. Melancton Smith Grave Old Masonic symbols cover the headstone of Col. Melancton Smith in Riverside Cemetery, Plattsburgh.
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Ausable River Lodge No. 149
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Keeseville/Clintonville Map Undated Birmingham Falls, Clintonville, Keeseville Map
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One Hundred Anti-Slavery Conventions Tour 1843 Arrangements have been made for holding One Hundred Anti-Slavery Conventions during the next six months, in various parts of the country but chiefly in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana-- in accordance with a plan adopted at the late New England A.S. Conventions. Among the speakers who will give their attendance from the East are Messrs. John A. Collins, George Bradburn, Frederick Douglass, Charles L. Redmond and James Monroe.
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Grave of Thomas Wrangham The grave of Thomas Wrangham, the first white male child born in the Town of Peru (1793-1860) and his wives, Fannie B. (1795-1842) and Philena C., (1799-1877) in the Peru Blockhouse Cemetery, Bear Swamp Rd. Peru, Clinton Co. N.Y.
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View of Revolutionary War Patriot graves at Peru Blockhouse Cemetery Capt. Isaac Finch purchased this land and built the Peru Blockhouse with his sons John, Justice and James in 1792. The blockhouse was never used for refuge from Indian attacks but as an early courthouse, meeting place of the First Baptist Church of Christ of Peru, and a small-pox hospital.
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Blockhouse Marker on Bear Swamp Road, Peru, Clinton Co. N.Y. Peru Blockhouse Cemetery Marker, Bear Swamp Road, Peru, Clinton Co., N.Y.
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Isaac Finch mortgage to Melancton Smith and John Bleecker Isaac Finch purchases land from Melancton Smith and John Bleecker on March 6, 1811 for Lot Number 7 for $124.67.
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The History of Clinton County Compiled From Data Gathered In 1880 First Settlers of Town of Peru Followed Indian Trails Into Wilderness—Many Built Log Cabins on Little Ausable River—Pioneers Came as Early as 1790—Number Came From Dutchess County—Early Inhabitants Listed by Districts
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The History of Clinton County Compiled From Data Gathered In 1880 Data on Town of Ausable Continued —- Religious History Covered, Giving Details of Formation of Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, Catholic And Episcopal Churches and Dividing of Parishes — Freshet of 1856 Is Described — Many From Town Served in Civil War.
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Gerrit Smith Abolitionist and philanthropist Gerrit Smith spoke at First Keeseville Baptist Church on June 7, 1845
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Isaac Finch Military Record 1813 Isaac Finch Military Payroll Record
Capt. John Cantine
Co. of Lt. Col. George Fleming
11 Sept. 1813-11 Oct. 1813
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Isaac Finch, Military Record 7 October 1777 Payroll of the First Division, Continental Troops
Under the command of Capt. Rufus Herrick
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Battle of Plattsburgh Battle of Plattsburgh by the late artist Lee Hunt.
From the History of Peru, page 351, are some interesting facts on those members of the Church who served in the War of 1812. Isaac Finch of Jay, N.Y. , became a Major.
"During the War of 1812, the press-gangs seized teams of John taylor, Elisha Arnold, Elisha Button, Stephen Keese, and others with a special view to the transportation of troops to Sackett's Harbor." Taylor and Button were members of this church. David Cochran became a Captain, and Elisha Button a lieutenant.
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St. John the Baptist Church
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Eleanor Arthur Spaulding, author of A History of the First Baptist Church of Keeseville, N.Y.
1788 --- 1968 Mrs. Eleanor A. Spaulding (standing right) with Mrs. Cora Stafford (standing left) and Mrs. Grace Arnold (seated). The photograph was taken in the home of Eleanor Spaulding, Peru, N.Y.
These ladies collected and edited and wrote two volumes of Peru History, "A Collection of Articles and Local History by J. Warren Harkness and Others."