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Sign from First Baptist Church of Keeseville, Front Street This bespoke wooden sign graced the exterior door of the First Baptist Church of Keeseville on Front Street.
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One of two time capsules from First Baptist Church of Keeseville, Front Street This time capsule was found when the First Baptist Church of Keeseville was razed on Front Street.
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First Baptist Church of Keeseville, Front Street, razed.
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First Baptist Church of Keeseville, Front Street, Mid-century
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From First Baptist Church of Keeseville to Church of St. John de Baptiste, Keeseville, N.Y. :The old building was sold to the St. Jean de Baptiste Society in 1853 for about $1,200. The church was used by that Society until 1901, when it was moved across the street and became the St. John's Hall. Upon looking closely, ath the Hall, one can see how the architecture of the old one resembles the church downtown..
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Isaac Finch Gravesite In 1787, Isaac Finch from Washington, Dutchess County, New York, who with his wife (Abigail) was a member of the Baptist Church in Dover, under the care of Rev. Mr. Gano, visited the region on an exploring expedition. He sailed from Whitehall (Skenesborough 1775) in a small sloop, and disembarked at the point later called Peru Landing. There were only six inhabitants in the town, viz: Robert Cochran and Nathan Mallory on the Lake Shore; Moses Dickson, Jabez Allen, John and Lot Elmore between the two rivers; Edward Everett and John Stanton in the Union. (The "Union" was not then as it cam into being about a year or so later. The "Union" was and is about six or seven miles from the lake shore). Having concluded to settle at this place, Mr. Finch returned the following year 1788 with his family, among who was his son, William, then a lad of twelve years old. It was the season of great scarcity. Having located on a spot about a mile west of Perul Landing, a part which is now used as burying ground, (Block House Cemetery at the east end of the Bear Swamp Road leading to the Lake from Peru Village), he immediately commenced holding prayer meetings.
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St. John Baptist Church today St. John Baptist Church, Catholic Community of Keeseville
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First Baptist Church of Keeseville Marker Pomeroy Foundation Marker erected by Anderson Falls Historical Society
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First Baptist Church of Keeseville Original First Baptist Church of Keeseville as it appears today on Liberty Street. The name first given to the "First Baptist Church of Keeseville" was the "Baptist Church of Christ in Peru." It had its beginnings in 1788 on the shore of Lake Champlain in the section now called "Valcour." The founder, Isaac Finch, came to an almost unbroken wilderness just four years after Zephaniah Platt (1784) laid claim by "rights" from the State of New York to Platt's Great Location of 17,983 acres.
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1791 First Baptist Church of Keeseville Sign NYS Marker for the Log Cabin Home of Uriah and Betty Palmer. The Baptist Church of Christ in Peru, later renamed First Baptist Church of Keeseville, was constituted in a log house, the occupied by Uriah Palmer (1791) and now owned by Joshua Reynolds. Isaac Finch succeeded in inducing Rev. Solomon Brown of Granville, Washington County to remove to Peru. Its constituted member were: Edward Everett and wife, Kinner Newcomb, Stephen Reynolds, Lucretia Reynolds, Sarah Palmer, Noble Averill, Polly Averill, John Cochran, Isaac Finch, Abigail Finch, John Finch, Sarah Finch, Simeon Barber, Catherine Barber and Urial Palmer.
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Peru Landing Peru Landing, (Port Jackson). Early settlement fanned from the shores of Lake Champlain to the interior of the Adirondacks and Champlain Valley region.
8 April 1801
By the " Reverend Mr. Halsey, Minister of Plattsburgh" Lodema, daughter of John Ransom and his wife Rhoda Pratt, and John Craig a native of Scotland who had settled in Canada, were mar- ried. They made their home on a farm of 500 acres on the lake shore in Peru where John Craig built the first and only dock (Peru landing) between Essex and Cumberland Head. ( Page 43)
2 April 1804
At Peru Landing, died John Craig, Sr., a Scotchman who had first settled in Canada. In 1801, he had married Lodema Ransom, daughter of John of Cumberland Head. Their only child, John Craig, Jr., was then but a few months old. (Page 94).
Source: Three Centuries in Champlain Valley: A Collection of Historical Fact and Incidents" by Tuttle, Maria Jeanette Brookings ; Daughters of the American Revolution, Saranac Chapter (Plattsburgh, N.Y.) 1909 www.archive.org
"Peru Landing was not named until 1829. A map in the possession of Dr. Wm. Ladue (Sr.) of Plattsburgh locates Peru Landing just north of the mouth of the Big AuSable River, and just above a "Sandy Beach" now called AuSable Point. There is a jut of land along there which shows the remains of an old dock. This spot as near as can be ascertained is on the property long called "Straight Property." (Dr. Straight, a dentist of Keeseville was born there.) It is now owned by Stanley Dew, and he has camps called Orchards Camps." (1958). Source: The History of the First Baptist Church of Keeseville, N.Y. 1788-1968, Bibliography, Addendum to the Church Minutes Transcribed by Eleanor A. Spaulding, Church Historian. Peru Town Historian Office Archives