Keese Mill, New York

Saint Regis Presbyterian Church, designed by William L. Coulter

Keese Mill is a hamlet west of Paul Smiths, New York in Franklin County, New York in the Adirondacks. It is named for a sawmill that was located on the Keese Mill dam on the Saint Regis River. Keese 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.

History

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.

Keese Mill Road, the hamlet of Otisville

References

Further reading

• Jamieson, Paul and Morris, Donald, Adirondack Canoe Waters, North Flow, Lake George, NY: Adirondack Mountain Club, 1987. ISBN 0-935272-43-7.

Municipalities and communities of Franklin County, New York, United States County seat: Malone Towns Bangor Bellmont Bombay Brandon Brighton Burke Chateaugay Constable Dickinson Duane Fort Covington Franklin Harrietstown Malone Moira Santa Clara Tupper Lake Waverly Westville Villages Brushton Burke Chateaugay Malone Saranac Lake‡ Tupper Lake CDPs Fort Covington Hamlet Paul Smiths St. Regis Falls Hamlets Gabriels Goldsmith Hogansburg Keese Mill Lake Clear Loon Lake Saint Regis Skerry Upper St. Regis Vermontville Indian reservation St. Regis Mohawk Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 44°25′57″N 74°17′46″W / 44.43250°N 74.29611°W / 44.43250; -74.29611