. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . wa k edaily news-papers andits notableweekly, thePlatts burgRepublican —institutedin i»ii—and notwithstanding its age. one of themost reliable and ably conducted Democratic 1811- 162 LAKE CHAMPLAIN weeklies in the State. The town has numerouschurches, high and graded schools, State NormalSchool The First Settler in this region was CountCharles de Fredenburgh, a captain in the Englisharmy. The wararnt conveying the land to him boredate June 11, 1769. The property reverting to thestate after the Revolution, was granted in 1784, toZephaniah Pi
. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . wa k edaily news-papers andits notableweekly, thePlatts burgRepublican —institutedin i»ii—and notwithstanding its age. one of themost reliable and ably conducted Democratic 1811- 162 LAKE CHAMPLAIN weeklies in the State. The town has numerouschurches, high and graded schools, State NormalSchool The First Settler in this region was CountCharles de Fredenburgh, a captain in the Englisharmy. The wararnt conveying the land to him boredate June 11, 1769. The property reverting to thestate after the Revolution, was granted in 1784, toZephaniah Piatt and others, and incorporated intothe town of Plattsburgh, April 4, 1785. A companywas then organized which, in June of the sameyear, erected a mill a Fredenburgh Falls. The es-timate of expense contained, among other items,the following: For bread, $65; for rum, $ used a great deal of bread in those days. Inthe year 1800 Plattsburg possessed a population ofless than 300, Within the county limits were own-ed at this time 58 slaves 163. MAP OF LAKE No. 5. 164 LAKE CHAMPLAIN The New Cumberland is on the main street andleads as the commercial hotel. It has electricelevator, steam heat and electric lights. Rates,$ The Witherell Hotel is a fine house, with an ex-cellent reputation. W . H. Howell, , $ up. it has a grill room and catersacceptably to automotile tourists. It is quite the corret t thing for parties boundsouth over Lake Chamyain, arriving in Platts-burg at night, to go aboa-d the steamer Ver-mont, where excellent accommodations are pro-vided, and rise and breakfast at their leisure afterthe boat leaves her dock in the morning. Cumberland Head, near which occurred thenaval battle of 1814, is three miles from Platts-burgh. Continuing northward the west shore islow but picturesque in its irregular line of deepbays and projecting points, but of little interesthistorically except for the old fort that once stoodon Point
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