Fun Facts

(Well, if you consider historical/demographic facts fun, that is.... and we do.) 

In any case:
o Chateaugay is the oldest town in Franklin County, NY (founded 1799)

o Tupper Lake is the youngest town in Franklin County (founded 1890 and renamed in 2004 – originally town of Altamont)

o Duane is the least populous town

o Malone is the most populous town

o The 2000 census recorded 51,134 people living within Franklin County.

o Harrietstown is the largest township (in square miles)

o Constable is the smallest township (in square miles)

Teacher Examinations

From a March 1864 issue of the Malone Palladium:

Langdon's Earliana Tomatoes

From Historical Sketches of Franklin County, New York (1918) by Frederick J. Seaver, p.263:

The soil [in the town of Constable], though generally light, is rich and heavy in a few localities. Market gardening is practiced successfully and upon a large scale, especially by Herbert P. Langdon & Son, successors to Fayette Langdon & Son, who entered upon the business some fifteen years ago. Their first venture was melon raising, which was successful for a time, but latterly has been a failure, and therefore abandoned. At present the concern's specialties are early cabbages, early corn, early tomatoes, onions, sweet peppers, etc. Of corn they market forty to fifty thousand cars in a season, and of tomatoes eight hundred to a thousand bushels. Most of their products are shipped to summer hotels in the Adirondacks at fancy prices, though considerable quantities are sold in Malone also. They have developed a particularly early and fine tomato, called the Langdon Strain of Earlianas, from the most carefully selected specimens of which they put up large quantities of seeds for sale to seedsmen. For the choicest of these seeds they have no difficulty in disposing of all they raise at five dollars per ounce, with other grades selling at varying figures down to sixty cents per ounce. They had a contract in 1916, outside of the Earliana seed, to furnish a large house with all of the seed from two acres that were cultivated solely for this purpose. Their tomato seeds alone brought them two thousand four hundred dollars in 1915!

From the Weekly Market Grower's Journal, January 20, 1912:

From The Southern Planter, January 1911:

Damages for sheep killed by dogs

From the 1853-1867 Minutes and Account Book of the Franklin County Board of Supervisors (forerunner of the Board of Legislators) in the collection of the Franklin County Historical and Museum Society (1984.118.1):

The following list appears in the minutes of November 11, 1863:

"The following claims were presented before the Board for damages to sheep killed by dogs.

Luther D. Green        Burke
William Woods            "
Henry Mallon               "
David Bush                  "
Josiah T. Barnum         " 
Sarah Percy                "
Mary Bingham             "
Mathhias Emerick        "
David Crippin              "
B.O. Neil                     "
M. Hurlbut              Constable
Francis Graves              "
Jacob Lanks                  "
Richard Cunningham      "
John L. Rogers              "
Norman Cook         Chateaugay
William A. Joslin            "
Samuel Stuart                "
E.A. Silver                    "
Jel Sunderland              "
Patrick Nolan               "
R.D. Whitehead            "
Ransom Ives                 "
B.B. Reynolds         Bombay
George Davis              "
Emery Howes             "
Edmond Cotter           "
John Burke                 "
M.H. Sanders             "
Abial Frye                  "
Nelson Wiley            Westville
David M. Freeman        "
Ira D. Martin                 "
George P. Poor             "
Edward Stinson             "
Philemon Berry              "
David Craig                   "
John Lahy                 Fort Covington
A.M. Cushman                  "
Patrick Dunovan                "
Mrs. James Summerfield    "
R.N. Cushman                   "
Cornelius O'Keefe              "
James Costelo                    "
John G. Keefe                   "
J. White                  Constable
Royal G. Hascall      Malone
Dan Avery                   "
Homer Berry           Bombay
Fisk B. Platt            Constable"

1853 Franklin County Board of Supervisors

From the 1853-1867 Minutes and Account Book of the Franklin County Board of Supervisors (forerunner of the Board of Legislators) in the collection of the Franklin County Historical and Museum Society (1984.118.1):


"At the annual meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Franklin County held at the court house in the town of Malone on the 11th day of November 1853
Supervisors Present -
 
Joseph Eldred         Bangor
William Weed         Bellmont
George Russell        Bombay
Jason Baker            Brandon
Elisha Marks           Burke
Thomas Bennet       Chateaugay
Joseph Hastings       Constable
Peter Whitney          Dickinson
James Duane            Duane
Chandler Ellsworth   Fort Covington
John N. Merrill         Franklin
Wiliam F. Martin      Harrietstown
Henry S. Brewster    Malone
Simon D. Stevens     Moira
Philemon Berry        Westville
 
On motion, James Duane was unanimously chosen chairman of the Board.
 
Adjourned, on motion, to the house of C.M. Gifford in Malone."

Shell Gasoline Stations

From the June 29, 1962 Malone Evening Telegram:

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1916 School Superintent's Report

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From the collection of the Franklin County Historical & Museum Society, 1976.192