Corinth (town), New York
| Corinth | |
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| Town | |
Palmer Falls c.1930-1945
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| Nickname(s): Gateway to the Adirondacks | |
 Corinth
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| Coordinates: 43°13′36″N 73°53′23″W / 43.22667°N 73.88972°WCoordinates: 43°13′36″N 73°53′23″W / 43.22667°N 73.88972°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Saratoga |
| Settled | 1775 |
| Established | 1818 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 58.1 sq mi (150 km2) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 6,200 |
| • Density | 110/sq mi (41/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| Area code(s) | 518 |
| Website | www.townofcorinthny.com |
Corinth is a town in Saratoga County, New York, United States. The population was 6,531 at the 2010 census. The town contains a village also named Corinth. The town is on the northeast border of the county, north of Saratoga Springs. The town is noted as "the snowshoe capital of the world".
Around 1763, after the French and Indian War, Ebenezer Jessup and his brother Edward from Luzerne began lumbering operations in the town. They floated rafts of logs down the Hudson. To bypass Palmer Falls they landed the rafts at a place called "Jessup's Landing", now the public beach of the Village of Corinth. They loaded the logs onto wagons and carted them around the falls. During the American Revolution the Jessups sided with the Loyalists and fled to Canada, where they commanded a unit known as "Jessup's Loyal Rangers". For a long time the area was known as Jessup's Landing. The first permanent settlement in this area was around 1777, when Joseph Eggleston moved from Wilton to escape British raiders. John W. Taylor moved from Charlton to Jessup's Landing around 1808 and helped organize the Town of Corinth in 1818.
Around 1790 Ambrose Clothier moved from Connecticut and built a cabin near Lake Bonita on Mount McGregor. He had three sons and three daughters, and all his sons were noted fiddlers. The area around Beaver Brook near the Hudson is today known as "Clothier Hollow".Other early settlers in this area were Benjamin Ide, Jonathan Hodges, William Grippen, Lawrence Barber, Jonathan Barrass, and Hathaway Randall.
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