October 29
- the wild berries are the flowers of the fall, many of them as brilliant in color and beautiful in arrangement as the spring and summer blossoms whose children they are.-Buckham
1793
"This day we compleat the Bridge here (Plattsburgh) ready to Raise; to morrow we
proceed to Great Sable on where we expect to compleat the bridge in a few days." -
Letter from Nathaniel Platt.
This was the bridge by the State where the State road crossed the Ausable River, and was the first bridging of the stream. The road then ran by way of Schroon, Elizabethtown, Poke O'Moonshine to Plattsburgh.
That day Samuel Keese, son of Stephen and Ruth (Hull) Keese, was born in Dutchess county and the following year, with his brothers, William and Richard, was brought to Peru. Samuel became one of the most prominent of the "Quaker" preachers and , as early as the winter of 1835-36, he attended a meeting of the Society of Friends, held in New York, and labored with a few others to induce the Society to strive for the promulgation of the doctrine of immediate emancipation as the only means of preventing future bloodshed. His sister, Elizabeth, became the wife of Benjamin Smith.
1899
Mrs. Harriet (Hunt) Vilas, widow of Samuel F. Vilas, finished a long and unselfish
Christian life of nearly 89 years. Mrs. Vilas came a bride to Plattsburgh in 1836 and her
early married life was spent in the large white house with green blinds standing on the
corner of Margaret and Brinkerhoff streets. This was burned in the Great Fire of '49. The
Vilas Home, erected by Mrs. Vilas in memory of her husband and an object of her solicitude
to the end, stands as a lasting memorial to her Christian charity.
Today
In Champlain Valley History