Keese Mill, New York
Keeses Mills, a.k.a. Keeses Mill and rarely Keese Mill, is a hamlet west of Paul Smiths, New York in the Town of Brighton, Franklin County, New York in the Adirondacks. It is named for a sawmill that was located on the Keeses Mills dam on the Saint Regis River. Keeses Mills road, which starts at Paul Smiths, is the only road in the hamlet; it provides access to Black Pond and Long Pond, trails to Saint Regis and Jenkins Mountains and the Saint Regis Esker Trail, and the middle branch of the Saint Regis River.
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History
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Oliver Keese and Thomas A. Tomlinson, lumbermen and mill operators from Keeseville, New York built a sawmill there in 1851, which became the center of a small community.[1] In 1923, Marjorie Merriweather Post built Camp Topridge, a Great Camp on the esker between the nearby Spectacle Ponds and Upper Saint Regis Lake. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[2]
References
- Seaver, Frederick J., Historical Sketches of Franklin County, Albany: J.B. Lyon & Co., 1918, p. 206 (see Ray's Place)
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
Further reading
- Jamieson, Paul and Morris, Donald, Adirondack Canoe Waters, North Flow, Lake George, NY: Adirondack Mountain Club, 1987. ISBN 0-935272-43-7.