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History of Pierrepont NY:

http://history.rays-place.com/ny/pierrepont-ny.htm

 

St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1860

Potsdam Courier Freeman Nov 12, 1862

Watertown Times June 4, 1928

Church - Crary Mills

 Church Interior

Crary Mills Cemetery

Cemetery & Church - Crary Mills

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1942 - The Crary Family:

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1944:

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1921- Maria Harvey :

 

St Lawrence Plaindealer 1885:

 

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Jan 4, 1910:

 

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Oct 11, 1951:

 

 

Lowville NY Northern Journal - Sept 7, 1843:

Eliphalet Flint Hobart (b 1816/8 - d 1897)

1870  Pierrepont Census:

Hobart   E. F.          54   M    W    Farmer         1,300     200       N H                                                 
Hobart    Sophia B.      57   F    W    Keeping House                      Vermont
Hobart   Abial M.       22   M    W    House Joiner   NY                                                                           
Hobart   Ella J.        17   F    W    Domestic Servt     NY                                                   
Hobart   Abbie S.       12   F    W    Attending School      NY                                                   
Hobart   Chauncy N.     9    M    W    Attending School       NY                                                   

Hobart   Isabell J.     5  F W       NY

1880 Pierrepont Census: age 62, Farmer, born in Vt

St. Lawrence Republican July 15, 1908

 Runion's Farm (family from Lisbon?)

Waddington Recorder 1894

Captain James H. Hitchcock, St Lawrence Republican 1886 (note he moved to Washington DC, had a job in the Treasury Department and is buried at Arlington Cemetery)

1870 Census -  Pierrepont -JH Hitchcock, carpenter and farmer,  age 35, wife Mary, children Frances 12, Emma 10

George Hitchcock age 31, carpenter and farmer, wife Adaline 31, Wallace 9, William 6, Mary 3

 

 

 

photo from the Library of Congress by I Inman

Pierrepont was named after Hezekiah Beers Pierrepont, b in New Haven Ct. in 1768. Pierrepont was involved with some adventures in shipping during the 1790s.  In 1802 he married Anna Marie Constable in NY and bought a brewery in in Brooklyn.  By 1815 he was involved in helping to make Brooklyn a village. He died in 1838. 

 

Click here for documents from the New York Public Library, Rare Books & Manuscripts Division:  http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/msspierr.pdf

Brooklyn Eagle April 21, 1930

Brooklyn Eagle 1944

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Moses Leonard - 1836 from St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1938

 

Albert P. Crary: He grew up in the Pierrepont/Crary Mills area. Known as "The Unfreezable Man," he was a renowned polar explorer and the first person to set foot on both the North and South Poles.   Graduated from SLU in 1931.

Union Church & Town Hall - Pierrepont

HH Clark's Store - Crary Mills - sold to Harry Clark in 1893 by Oscar F. Witters

Interior of Clark's Store - Harold and Carl Clark - sons of Harry - Post Office on left

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1927

Plaindealer 1946 or 1948

Donkey Cart - Crary Mills

Crary Mills Grange 1913

Gibson Farm Crary Mills

Packard's Hotel

This is a photograph from the Plaindealer.  The captions says Lute and Alvah Crary are shown in this picture taken in 1899 by AM Crary.  According to Carl Newton of Pierrepont, this is the only photograph of Packard's Hotel, built in Pierrepont in about 1800.  It stood on the Russell Turnpike just south of the four corners of the turnpike and the Pierrepont-Canton Road.  The hotel burned in 1900.

From Canton Commercial Advertiser 1941:

School District No 7 - 1898-1899

 

Gouverneur Times 1868:

 

Ogdensburg Advance 1958:

 

Canton Plaindealer:

 

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1950:

 

 

Potsdam Herald Recorder Oct 11, 1929:

 

9/11/2009

Hi Connie,

Perhaps attached picture dated 1918 might be of interest to you for your website? It shows a group of young (roman catholic) girls gathered around a statue of the Holy Heart with their teacher Sister Emerance, teaching French in the village’s Sunday School. On top you can see the Stars and Stripes but held the reverse side. If you look carefully on the flag is a picture of president Woodrow Wilson.

The girls on the lower row hold frames with the picture of  (Belgian) King Albert I and his wife Queen Elisabeth I and in the very center of the lower row is a message in English written in chalk on the blackboard:

 “As a gift of their gratitude from the Belgian children of Denderhoutem to the little American(s) of Pierrepont  – 1914-1918”

 Via the local historical society of Haaltert (Denderhoutem is now one of the 4 former independent villages who regrouped into one single greater village in the seventies) I found out that our former local politician  Baron Lodewijk (=Louis) de Sadeleer – Belgian Minister of State during WW I -  was one of the members of an official Belgian mission composed of several ministers that came to see President Wilson pleading forhelp to Belgian children. The mission was composed of “le compte Louis de Lichtervelde, secrétaire ; Carton de Wiart, Ministre de la Justice ; Ministre d’Etat de Sadeleer (Catholique) ; Paul Hymans, chef du parti libéral et Emile Van der Velde, chef du parti socialiste’ 

Neighhbouring village Kerksken got aid from Cheneclady, neighhbouring village Heldergem got aid from Calshille.

Denderhoutem got aid from Pierrepont (soup, cacao, clothes etc.).

For your information, Denderhoutem had approx 3000 inhabitants at that time.

 

Luc POTS  [luc.pots1@telenet.be]

Molenstraat, 92

9450 DENDERHOUTEM

gsm +32.478.47.45.54

skype luc.pots

 

 

1855 Maps & Photos

Pierrepont was formed from Potsdam and Russell in 1818