Plattsburgh (city), New York
City of Plattsburgh Map of Plattsburgh town/city Map of Plattsburgh town/city Location in Clinton County and the state of New York.
Location in Clinton County and the state of New York.
Plattsburgh is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Clinton County, New York, in the United States.
The populace was 19,989 at the 2010 census. The populace of the unincorporated areas inside the Town of Plattsburgh was 11,870 as of the 2010 census, making the populace for the immediate Plattsburgh region 31,859.
The town/city of Plattsburgh is inside the boundaries of the initial "Town of Plattsburgh" and is in the North Country region of the state of New York.
2.3 Plattsburgh's beginning under American rule The City of Plattsburgh is the populace center and governmental center of county at the heart of the Plattsburgh Micropolitan Travel Destination (MSA) - populace 82,128 as of the 2010 Census. A statistical region representing the greater Plattsburgh region (as defined by the U.S.
Government), the Plattsburgh MSA includes all communities in the immediate Clinton County, New York area.
Beginning with Samuel de Champlain's expedition into the Lake Champlain valley in 1609, the Plattsburgh region began to come under the French influence, later passing under English and finally American control.
Located in the extended fur trade network in the Montreal hinterland, the Plattsburgh region was the realm of the coureur des bois who served the larger trading core in Montreal.
Although Plattsburgh is a mostly new city, the encircling area was settled amid the mid-to-late 17th century.
Permanent French settlement was hampered by the threat of conflict with the Iroquois, but French missionaries began living among the indigenous populace as early as 1609. Moreover, the region near Plattsburgh is notable for being the site of an indigenous village. Plattsburgh and much of the lands comprising present day Clinton County were originally part of the French settlement of New France.
As a condition of the 1763 Treaty of Paris, a vast region including present-day Plattsburgh was ceded from France to Britain.
The beginning of present-day Plattsburgh, however, was not an act of the British, rather it coincided with the American territorial acquisition after the American Revolutionary War; ended as per the agreement between the newly established United States of America and Great Britain via the 1783 Treaty of Paris.
Plattsburgh's beginning under American rule Plattsburgh was established by Zephaniah Platt in 1785 after he was granted the territory by George Clinton. In granting territory to Zephaniah Platt of Poughkeepsie, New York - who went on to establish the new town/city of Plattsburgh to buffer emerging American interests in the Saint Lawrence River valley and Lake Champlain valley after the American victory in the American Revolutionary War - the centralized American authority proclaimed the region including and encircling the old French trading areas and Iroquois settlement to be refounded as the settlement of Plattsburgh in 1785.
In Plattsburgh, for example, there is no "Main Street" - a common vestige of English colonies, whereas in a unique tradition primary streets and thoroughfares were titled after the daughters of prominent businessman and politicians (e.g., Catherine, Margaret, present day North Catherine and South Catherine Streets, and Plattsburgh's "Main Street", Cornelia St.).
With its momentous locale on a primary water thoroughfare and close to the Canada US border, Plattsburgh has been the site of a number of historic affairs including the Revolutionary War's Battle of Valcour Island and the War of 1812's Battle of Plattsburgh; the town/city has a War of 1812 exhibition.
The Battle of Plattsburgh is momentous as it was the final battle between the British/Canadian forces and the American (a feet that was made prominent given the battle was a flout of no less than 14,000 United Kingdom and Canadian forces compared to a force of 1,500 American regulars and 1,900 New York and Vermont militia) -- for references see Battle of Plattsburgh.
In 1948 it became State University of New York at Plattsburgh.
In 1915, the Preparedness Movement established the first and best-known of its training camps for prospective military volunteers at Plattsburgh.
The "Plattsburgh camps" trained about 40,000 potential Army officers in the summers of 1915 and 1916.
During the Cold War, military functions took a prominent part in Plattsburgh, which was home to Plattsburgh Air Force Base (PAFB) and was the locale of the Strategic Air Command's major wing on the U.S.
The Squadron consisted of 12 Atlas "F" Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles stored in underground silos at 12 sites encircling the town/city of Plattsburgh.
The base property is now managed by the Plattsburgh Airbase Redevelopment Corporation (PARC) and is used by a number of industrialized manufacturers and commercial airlines.
Dollar, Plattsburgh was a favorite tourist locale for vacationers from Montreal and southern Quebec. Bilingual signs, in English and French, are found in parts of the city. The town/city beaches and camp grounds were regularly crowded and Plattsburgh thriving enough retail stores and outlets to build a second large indoor shopping mall, Champlain Centre North, in addition to a several outside shopping centers. The additional retail space of the Champlain Centre North along with the new Consumer Square (Walmart, Staples, TJ Maxx...) made the Pyramid Mall irrelevant; it was largely completed (with exception of Kmart and the restored old Price Chopper building) and converted into a power center with a 115,000 sq ft (10,700 m2) Lowes Home Center and a new Price Chopper as the anchor stores.
The City of Plattsburgh was the first town/city in the state to elect an openly gay mayor when they propel Daniel Stewart in 1999. Dave Annable, actor, attended college at SUNY Plattsburgh from 1998 to 2003, earning his degree in 2009. John Henry Hopkins, Jr., author of the well-known Christmas carol We Three Kings, was rector of Plattsburgh's Trinity Episcopal church from 1872-76. Bryan O'Byrne, character actor, was born in Plattsburgh, attended St.
Peter's Elementary School, Plattsburgh High School, and graduated from Plattsburgh State. Compounding the confusion, in 1950 the editor of the New York State Legislative Manual, seeking to simplify the organization of that year's manual, requested a listing of state postal services from the United States Postal Service.
As a result of the 1951 investigation, the name of the town/city postal service was changed back to Plattsburgh.
To this day, some signs (including US and Canadian highway signs and a sign at the Plattsburgh (Amtrak station), among others) erroneously point the way to "Plattsburg".
Plattsburgh is at 44 41 43 N 73 27 30 W (44.695365, -73.458593). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has an region of 6.6 square miles (17.0 km ), of which, 5.1 square miles (13.1 km ) of it is territory and 1.5 square miles (4.0 km ) of it (23.40%) is water.
Plattsburgh is on the shore of Lake Champlain in the northeastern part of the state of New York, just south of Cumberland Head.
Plattsburgh International Airport, Montreal's NY Airport, has thriving bargain seekers from Canada seeking inexpensive fares to Florida, the sole primary airline is Allegiant Air Lines of Las Vegas.
Plattsburgh City Hall The City of Plattsburgh is home to SUNY Plattsburgh, a liberal arts college which is a part of the State University of New York system.
The College has been a part of the town/city since its beginning in 1889 as the Plattsburgh State Normal School. Today, the College is host to about 5,500 undergraduates, 700 graduate students, and almost 400 faculty members. Plattsburgh is part of a media market shared with Burlington, Vermont, which includes WCAX-TV (CBS, channel 3), WVNY-TV (ABC, channel 22) and WFFF-TV (Fox, channel 44).
Some of these Canadian stations, including CBFT-DT, CBMT-DT and CFCF-DT, are available on Charter Communications, the cable charter serving Plattsburgh.
Plattsburgh is about a 60-minute drive from Montreal, Quebec.
New York state is Quebec's biggest trade partner, with about $6 billion in trade annually. The adjacency leads to Plattsburgh's eminence as a large trade center for a town/city its size.
I-87.svg Interstate 87 bypasses Plattsburgh to the west, connecting Montreal with Albany and points south.
Three chief exits serve the town/city of Plattsburgh, with a fourth serving the Cumberland Head precinct of the town.
NY-3.svg New York State Route 3 is an east-west state highway that enters the town/city from the west as Cornelia Street, intersects Route 22 and then ends at Route 9.
NY-22.svg New York State Route 22 is a north-south state highway that enters the town/city from the southwest and then turns north to run alongside to the west of Route 9.
NY-314.svg New York State Route 314 is a short east-west highway on the north town line with the town of Plattsburgh connecting Interstate 87 with the Grand Isle Plattsburgh Ferry to Vermont.
Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, provides service to Plattsburgh, operating its Adirondack daily in both directions between Montreal and New York City.
The closest American town/city larger than Plattsburgh is Burlington, Vermont, reachable via ferry or a bridge further north at Rouses Point.
Plattsburgh International Airport uses the runway of the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base, which closed in 1995.
Plattsburgh International offers passenger service to Boston via Pen - Air, an Alaska-based airline that recently established destinations in the Northeast, Pen - Air makes daily flights to Boston-Logan International Airport using twin engine, turboprop powered Saab 340 airplane .
Allegiant Air also uses Plattsburgh Int'l, offering direct flights to Fort Lauderdale and Orlando aboard mainline Mc - Donnell-Douglas MD-88 jetliners and cyclic service to Las Vegas using Boeing 757 airliners which are the biggest commercial airplane operating from the airport.
The county-wide bus service offers passengers town/city and county-wide bus routes, allowing passengers from encircling communities to travel to and from Plattsburgh.
Bombardier Transportation opened their 219,000 square feet Plattsburgh plant in 1995 to build railcars in the United States market. The students, faculty, staff and spending of SUNY Plattsburgh contribute approximately $200 million to the county-wide economy each fiscal year. A factory that will use titanium Rapid Plasma Deposition (a form of 3 - D Printing) to make parts for the aerospace trade is being assembled in Plattsburgh, the universal is supported by the state of New York and SUNY. The movie Frozen River was filmed in Plattsburgh and encircling areas.
In September, 2011, the British/Irish band One Direction filmed part of their music video "Gotta Be You" on the SUNY Plattsburgh Campus. on the ground of SUNY Plattsburgh on November 22, 1975. This Student Association sponsored concert was held at Memorial Hall. In August 1996, the modern band Phish, which was based athwart Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont, held the first of its ten weekend-long celebrations at the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base.
A scene from the Joe Cocker documentary "Mad Dogs & Englishmen" was filmed in and around his April 7, 1970 concert at SUNY Plattsburgh.
The Plattsburgh Sentinel, January 29, 1929, https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn - 8807 - 5736/1929-01-29/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=01%2 - F28%2 - F1929&city=&date2=01%2 - F30%2 - F1929&search - Type=advanced&Search - Type=any&sequence=0&lccn=&index=8&words=City+city+Hal - L+hall+Hall&proxdistance=&county=Clinton&to_year=1929&rows=20&ortext=Students+City+Hall&from_year=1929&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&date - Filter - Type=range&page=1 a b c d City of Plattsburgh.
Nova Bus Plattsburgh Factory "Dave Annable accepts the Off to a Good Start Award from SUNY Plattsburgh" (video).
State University of New York at Plattsburgh.
"Tom Chapin to Perform Concert at Plattsburgh State Oct.
"The Battle of Plattsburgh September 11, 1814".
Plattsburgh Sentinel, June 21, 1889 https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn - 8502 - 6976/1889-06-21/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=06%2 - F20%2 - F1889&index=0&date2=06%2 - F22%2 - F1889&search - Type=advanced&Search - Type=prox10&sequence=0&words=NORMAL+normal+Normal+School+SCHOOL+school+schools&proxdistance=10&to_year=1889&rows=20&ortext=&from_year=1889&proxtext=Normal+School&phrasetext=&andtext=&date - Filter - Type=range&page=1 "Plattsburgh Press Republican" mondotimes.com https://mondotimes.com/1/world/us/32/1876/4483 "Plattsburgh Burgh" https://mondotimes.com/1/world/us/32/1876/30112 "Is Plattsburgh Montreal's U.S.
SUNY Plattsburgh, Regional Impact of SUNY PLattsburgh Report, 2012 https://web.plattsburgh.edu/files/744/files/campus-economic-impact-study-2010-2011.pdf Plattsburgh, New York.
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Official website for the City of Plattsburgh SUNY Plattsburgh Plattsburgh City School District Municipalities and communities of Clinton County, New York, United States
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