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PLATTSBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 826 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLATTSBURG , a See also:

city, See also:port of entry and the See also:county-seat of See also:Clinton county, New See also:York, U.S.A., situated on the See also:west See also:shore of See also:Lake See also:Champlain, at the mouth of the Saranac See also:river, r68 m. (by See also:rail) N.N.E. of See also:Albany. Pop. (189o), 7010; (1900), 8434, of whom Io53 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910, See also:census), 11,138. It is served by the See also:Delaware & See also:Hudson railway, and has steamer connexions with lake ports. Its situation in the region of lakes and mountains and its delightful See also:climate have made it a summer resort. Among its institutions are the See also:Samuel F. See also:Vilas See also:Home (for aged and infirm See also:women); the Home for the Friendless of See also:Northern New York (1874), for the care of homeless See also:children; the Plattsburg See also:State Normal and Training School, the D'Youville See also:Academy for girls (founded in 186o, chartered in 1871), under the direction of the See also:Grey Nuns; the See also:College St See also:Pierre (See also:Roman See also:Catholic, 1903), and the Champlain Valley See also:Hospital. The See also:barracks, about a mile away, is an important military See also:post. Cliff Haven, 2 M. See also:south, is the seat of the Catholic summer school. Plattsburg has a See also:fine See also:harbour and is the port of entry of the Champlain customs See also:district; in 1909 its exports were valued at $15,169,502 and its imports at $8,167,527. Among the city's manufactures are See also:lumber, See also:wood pulp, See also:paper, shirts, sewing-See also:machines and automobiles.

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total value of the factory products in 1905 was $1,056,702. Plattsburg was incorporated as a See also:village in 1795, and derived its name from See also:Zephaniah See also:Platt (1740-1807), who had led a See also:colony of settlers to this See also:place from See also:Long See also:Island; it became a city in 1902. About Valcour Island (5 m. south-See also:east of Plattsburg), on the 11th of See also:October 1776, a See also:British See also:fleet under See also:Captain See also:Thomas See also:Pringle and an See also:American flotilla under See also:Benedict See also:Arnold engaged in the first conflict between American and British fleets, the British being victorious. On the outbreak of the See also:War of 1812 the village became the headquarters of the American See also:army on the northern frontier. On the 11th of See also:September 1814, in Plattsburg (or See also:Cumberland) See also:Bay, Captain See also:George Downie, commanding a British flotilla, was defeated by an American flotilla commanded by See also:Commodore Thomas See also:Macdonough, losing his See also:life in the engagement (see CHAMPLAIN, LAKE).

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