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HISTORICAL DATA
for St. Lawrence County
Every day brings evidence of our increasing population. The extreme part of New York state, which lays on the St.
Lawrence, begins to boast of its advantages and settlements. Under the name of the county of St. Lawrence, it extends
60 miles on that river, which passed by Montreal and Quebec to the ocean. Above it, on Ontario, in Kingston, in
Upper Canada. Ogdensburg is the center of this county, in which a court house is already built. This county town
is at the place where the Oswegatchie empties into the St. Lawrence. From hence the river is navigable to Montreal.
The passage is from three to six days in going down the river, and five in ascending it. For four shillings, a
barrel of flour may be shipped for Europe. The turnpike from Albany to Utica, is finished and is within 120 miles
of Ogdensburg, and about 26,000 dollars have been granted by the Legislature for a road from the Mohawk to St.
Lawrence. Several mills have been erected already, and most favorable accounts are given of the climate and the
soil. -- "Salem Register" as printed in "The Centinel",
Gettysburg, PA on July 31, 1805 - [submitted by Nancy Piper]
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