If you are driving on Route 3 between Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake, you have passed through Coreys, perhaps without even knowing it.
Located in the southern part of Harrietstown, Coreys is best known for its access to the Seward Range in the western side of the High Peaks Wilderness. Coreys Road, found on the right hand side of Route 3 a few miles from Tupper, heading toward Saranac Lake, serves as a starting point for multiple recreational uses: Horse riding trails, canoe routes, hiking and mountain biking.
Turn onto Coreys Road and the first mile or so of the road is lined with cabins and some year-round residences, some of which border the Stoney Creek Ponds. Most notable of these homes is that which belonged to Clarence Petty, noted wilderness guide, pilot and conservationist, who died at the end of 2009 at the age of 104.
There are many parts of the country where stargazing in the darkness of the night is a way of life, no streetlights, no noise, except a nearby river babbling across the rocks or crickets in the grass. Seems like the beginning of a novel but in reality it’s life in a town named Westville.
Growing up in this Franklin County town, my days were free of the worries and concerns so many children have in today’s world. The farm where we were living, when I was born, had been in the family since the mid 1800s. We were only one of countless farms in town, mostly dairy farms. Times have changed on the agricultural front but the quality of life in Westville seems to have stayed the same, a good place to live.
Town Supervisor Rod Lauzon, who has served in office for the past eight years, has seen a lot of growth in town, especially since the prisons were built in Malone, less then 10 miles away, bringing hundred of employees and their familes.
Nestled in the Northwestern corner of Essex County lies the only hamlet in the Town of St. Armand: Bloomingdale. Although small, Bloomingdale has always gathered attention from being less than ten miles from the major hubs of Paul Smith’s and Saranac Lake, providing a convenient resting place to have a bite to eat or stay the night.
The Town of St. Armand was extracted from the larger Town of Wilmington on April 23, 1844. It was only eight years later that Captain James H. Pierce of the Union Army, Nathan C.S. Hayes and Charles S. Toof were appointed to name the hamlet in 1852. The name Bloomingdale was chosen to compliment the rapid growth of the area at the time.
Located just to the north of the Adirondack Northway along Route 73 is the tiny hamlet of St. Huberts, which together with Keene Valley and Keene, helps form the town of Keene. St. Huberts is the smallest of the three hamlets, with a year-round population of about 200.
A few miles southeast of Malone, there is a small, quaint and secluded hamlet resting on a quiet mountainside of northern New York.
It is called Owls Head, and according to Nancy King, the rural town acquired its name exactly how it sounds.
"I was just a little girl in the '40s," King said. "My family moved up here and we noticed right away the shape of an owl's head on the side of the mountain."
If you are driving on Route 3 between Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake, you have passed through Coreys, perhaps without even knowing it.
Nestled in the Northwestern corner of Essex County lies the only hamlet in the Town of St. Armand: Bloomingdale. Although small, Bloomingdale has always gathered attention from being less than ten miles from the major hubs of Paul Smith’s and Saranac Lake, providing a convenient resting place to have a bite to eat or stay the night.
A few miles southeast of Malone, there is a small, quaint and secluded hamlet resting on a quiet mountainside of northern New York.