The Town of Bellmont
The town the cabins stand in: how Bellmont began in 1833, its hamlets, lakes and Sable Highlands land, and its town hall, post office, plowing and farm store.
The cabins stand in the Town of Bellmont, about 1,300 people on 167 square miles of hills, lakes and working forest on the eastern edge of Franklin County. They are near the hamlet of Owls Head on the town's west side, about ten road miles south of Malone village off County Route 25, at the northern edge of the Adirondack Park. This guide covers how the town began, its hamlets and lakes, the public land you can use, and where to find the town hall, the post office, the fire station and the nearest farm store.
Bellmont at a glance
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Formed | March 25, 1833, from the Town of Chateaugay |
| Named for | William Bell, a New York City merchant who owned land in the north of the town |
| County | Franklin |
| Size | 164.1 square miles of land and 3.0 square miles of water |
| People | 1,327 at the April 2020 census; 1,328 estimated for July 2025 |
| Hamlets | Owls Head, Mountain View, Bryants Mill, Porcaville, Wolf Pond, Bellmont Center, Brainardsville |
| Town hall | 9 Hill Road, Brainardsville, about 27 road miles from the cabins |
| Post office | Owls Head (ZIP 12969); Brainardsville's (ZIP 12915) was listed as temporarily closed in October 2026 |
| Closest hamlet to the cabins | Owls Head, about 3.5 road miles |
The Census Bureau counted 1,327 people in Bellmont in April 2020, down from 1,434 in 2010, and its estimate for July 2025 is 1,328. The 2020 count also found 1,122 housing units. Spread over 164 square miles of land, that is about eight people per square mile; the Town of Malone next door has about 122.
The town has two sides. The west, where the cabins are, has the Owls Head post office and is closest to Malone for shopping. Brainardsville, on the east side north of Lower Chateaugay Lake, is about five and a half road miles south of the village of Chateaugay. The quickest road from the cabins to the town hall runs north through Malone, east on US 11 to Chateaugay and south on NY 374.
How Bellmont began
Bellmont was set off from the Town of Chateaugay on March 25, 1833. At first it took in all of what is now the Town of Franklin to the south, which became a town of its own on May 20, 1836. In 1838 a strip a mile wide across the north end was added from Chateaugay.
The name honors William Bell of New York City. Bell had worked for William Constable in Constable's shipping business and later went into trade himself. Near the close of the 1700s he and partners took title to nearly all the land in the northern part of the town, his own share about 8,000 acres, and some twenty years later he was spending his summers there. He died in 1841.
Settlers came slowly, and they came first to the east side, around what became the hamlet of Chateaugay Lake. Samuel C. Drew, probably the first, arrived in 1816, and several of the early families, Drew's among them, came from New Hampshire. Another early settler, John Sanborn, claimed he had come first and tried to have the town named Sanborntown. The first sawmill in the town went up in 1822 or earlier, and a grist mill followed nearby, its millstones cut from local boulders. In the north-central part of the town, a settler who arrived about 1830 remembered only four or five houses, hardly more than huts, between Malone and Chateaugay Lake, and a round trip to Malone that took twenty hours.
The state tried to speed things up. An 1822 law offered a lot in township ten of the Old Military Tract, land that went to the Town of Franklin when it split off, to each settler who would clear and fence fifteen acres of it and build a house there within five years; the Owls Head guide has more on the offer. A county history written in 1918 still called Bellmont "mostly wilderness, though largely denuded," with soil "neither rich nor deep" and a rocky, mountainous surface.
The hamlets
The federal place-name records put seven hamlets inside the town line. From the cabins outward:
Owls Head
About 3.5 road miles from the cabins, Owls Head is the hamlet you will use most. It sits on County Route 27 below the mountain of the same name. The post office, the volunteer fire station on Ragged Lake Road and one of the town's two highway garages are here, and a farm store and a bar and grill are a short drive out of the hamlet. Its own story, from the first sawmills to the railroad station, is in the lakes guide.
Mountain View
About 6.4 road miles away, beside Mountain View Lake and Indian Lake. Its old name was State Dam, after the dam the state built on the Salmon River there in 1855 or 1856. The lakes guide covers its cottages, hotels and churches.
Bryants Mill and Porcaville
Two small named places south of Owls Head and Mountain View. Bryants Mill, about 7.9 road miles from the cabins, is about a mile and a half south of Mountain View, where Edwin R. Bryant of Syracuse built a sawmill. The 1918 county history wrote that its main product "seems to have been lawsuits and judgments." It burned, was rebuilt, and ran under several owners until 1915, when it was taken down and moved farther south. Porcaville, about 8.9 road miles away on County Route 27, lies in the southwest of the town.
Wolf Pond
About 11.7 road miles from the cabins by County Route 27 and Wolf Pond Road, near the town's southern line. It was a station on the Chateaugay Railroad and a charcoal-burning place, with kilns near the pond. Wolf Pond Road is one of the main roads into the Sable Highlands, and the town repaired a 430-foot washed-out section of it, with six-foot culverts, in September 2024.
Bellmont Center
In the north of the town, about 17 road miles from the cabins by way of Malone and County Route 24, Brainardsville Road. The town hall stood here in the 1800s, and the hamlet had a Congregational society from 1849, a Methodist church built in 1888 and a handful of small merchants over the years. The town's second highway garage is here.
Brainardsville
About 27 road miles from the cabins by way of Malone, US 11 and NY 374, and about five and a half road miles south of Chateaugay village. In 1850 Alanson Roberts of Chateaugay built an ashery here and hired a man named Cromp to run it, and the place was called Crompville. Lawrence Brainard of St. Albans, Vermont, bought the sawmill in 1854, enlarged it and built a grist mill and houses, and when the first post office opened in 1855 under the name Brainardsville, the hamlet took that name too. By 1918 it had a store or two, a sawmill, a creamery, a wheelwright shop, a Methodist church and a gravity water system built by private enterprise in 1904. Today it has the town hall, a town playground, and town water and sewer districts that serve about 240 people. Its post office, at 2399 County Route 24, was listed by the Postal Service as temporarily closed in October 2026, with its work moved to Chateaugay.
Chateaugay Lake, Middle Kilns and Standish
The hamlet of Chateaugay Lake, on Lower Chateaugay Lake, was busy in the years of the iron forge and almost deserted by 1918. Standish, on the county line and mostly in Clinton County, had a furnace and coal kilns; Middle Kilns lay west of it, and more kilns stood near Wolf Pond. In the 1890s Standish, Middle Kilns and the Wolf Pond kilns together held a shifting population of perhaps two or three hundred people.
Sawmills and lumber
Bellmont had many sawmills over the years, most of them small, and much of the timber cut in the town went to mills elsewhere. Lumber from the early mill near Chateaugay Lake was hauled forty miles to Champlain for a Malone firm.
The bigger mills came in the 1860s and after. Gilman Goodwin, who had made a fortune in New York City moving buildings, built a mill on the Little Trout River in the 1860s, about a mile east of the town hall, and rebuilt it at a reported cost of $60,000. It did not pay, and its machinery sold for $5,000 in 1882 and went to Gouverneur. Goodwin's mill and John Hart's were steam mills, each with its own store. In the west, Owls Head had a large sawmill and planing mill until a year or two before 1918, with another mill near Ingraham Pond.
The 1918 history called the record of these ventures "striking and pitiful." The operators had the best timber in the region at their doors, worked long hours and paid low wages, and still only a few made money: lumber sold cheap, and the hauls to shipping points were long and over poor roads. That year one old mill had a new owner, the Wayne Lumber Company of New York City, which was cutting lumber for building airplanes.
Iron and charcoal
Iron came early. Before 1810 a Chateaugay man, William Bailey, dug ore near Chateaugay Lake until the deposit ran out and worked it at High Falls on the Chateaugay River. In 1826 a Malone man leased mineral lands in the same area, and about 1875 two Chateaugay men opened an iron mine near the Bellows House, the old hotel on Lower Chateaugay Lake, and hauled the ore to Irona; two separators were built nearby to handle it. Two hills east of Mountain View still carry the names Orebed Hill and Little Orebed Hill in the federal place-name records, and the small mine on Owls Head itself is described in the Owls Head guide.
The big works began in 1874, when Pope, Williams and Company set out to build "the largest and best catalan forge in the world" at the hamlet of Chateaugay Lake, with ore from the Lyon Mountain mine about eleven miles away and charcoal from the surrounding forest. The Chateaugay Ore and Iron Company took it over in 1877. It kept two or three hundred men on its payroll in the county, besides the choppers and teamsters who worked under contract. About 30,000 cords of four-foot wood a year went into the kilns at the forge and at Standish, and the forge used about a million bushels of charcoal a year. A company steamboat towed barges of ore, charcoal and wood on the lake, the company sawmill cut planks for six miles of road to the railroad at Chateaugay, and the forge turned out as much as 5,000 tons of blooms and billets a year. Orders outran the forge until cheaper ways of making iron for steel came along, and the business was abandoned in 1893.
For all its size, the forge added little to Bellmont's population, because the Goodwin, Hart and Havens sawmills were closing as it grew. The Chateaugay Lakes guide has the forge site and the lake hotels around it, and the Lyon Mountain guide the mines that fed it.
The railroads
Two railroads crossed Bellmont, and they nearly met in the woods at Wolf Pond. The Chateaugay Railroad, a narrow-gauge line an iron company had built out of Lyon Mountain in 1879, came through in 1886. It entered the town at Standish on the eastern line and ran southwest seven or eight miles to Wolf Pond, with stations at Middle Kilns and Wolf Pond. It opened to Loon Lake in November 1886 and reached Saranac Lake in December 1887.
The Adirondack and St. Lawrence followed in 1892. It entered the town from Malone at Chasm Falls, on the west side, and ran southeast about twelve miles into the Town of Franklin near Plumadore Pond, with stations at Owls Head and Mountain View. The Owls Head guide follows that line to its end.
The Chateaugay line ended first. In October 1946 the Delaware and Hudson, which ran it by then, had the state Public Service Commission's permission to stop its trains west of Lyon Mountain, the stretch through Standish and Wolf Pond, on November 1. Railroaders said that made Lyon Mountain "the end of iron."
Lakes and summer camps
For a town with so much water, Bellmont was slow to draw summer people. The 1918 history found two exceptions: Lower Chateaugay Lake, with its hotel, and in the west Indian Lake and Mountain View, where many camps had gone up in recent years. Ragged Lake once had a small hotel, and in 1918 Ragged Lake, Ingraham Pond and the other waters had only one or two summer camps each. Guests from Montreal had been coming to Chateaugay Lake in good numbers since 1837 or 1838, and the area, then known locally as the "Shategee Woods," was about the only Adirondack spot in Franklin County besides the Saranac lakes that outsiders went looking for. The Chateaugay Lakes guide and the lakes guide tell the hotel stories.
The dam at Mountain View was a state job of the 1850s, and the lakes guide has its story, from the flooding that killed the timber along the old river channel to its rebuilding in 2019. The 1855 law that paid for it also ordered the state's land along the Salmon River sold only at public auction, in lots of 640 acres and for no less than thirty cents an acre.
The town appoints a keeper for the Mountain View dam, and the Mountain View Association, which dates to 1907, looks after the lakes. Its paid divers pull Eurasian watermilfoil; in 2025 it applied to treat two areas of Mountain View Lake with an aquatic herbicide, and in July 2026 it told the town board that no herbicide treatment was needed that year while divers kept clearing other spots. The association has also proposed a new boat launch on Mountain View Lake, which the town and county were still working through in June 2026, with the ownership of the land among the open questions. On the east side the town keeps a second dam keeper at the Forge Dam and names members to a Chateaugay Lake water-level control board.
Lakes, peaks and public land
Federal place-name records, checked against the census map of the town line, put these waters inside Bellmont: Mountain View Lake, Indian Lake, Papoose Lake, Ragged Lake, Ingraham Pond, Owls Head Pond, Wolf Pond, Figure Eight Pond and Lilypad Pond, with a scatter of smaller ponds and Lower Chateaugay Lake in the east. High Falls on the Salmon River is in Bellmont, and so is the summit of Owls Head. The peaks inside the town include Ragged Lake Mountain, Sugarloaf Mountain, Baldy Mountain, Haystack Mountain, Wolf Pond Mountain and Norton Peak; Owls Head is the one with a well-known trail.
Lake Titus, Elephant's Head and the Titus Mountain base lodge, 3.5 road miles from the cabins, lie west of the town line, in the Town of Malone; the Titus Mountain guide covers the ski area.
The public can use two big blocks of land in the town. The Titusville Mountain State Forest, 7,566 acres split between the towns of Bellmont and Malone, is the state forest next to the cabins; the state forest guide covers High Falls, Elephant's Head and the Ledges. The larger share is the Sable Highlands conservation easement on the former Domtar lands. The state's 2008 plan for the easement counted 51,142 acres in Bellmont, more than in any other town, against 21,504 in Franklin, 5,833 in Saranac and 5,693 in Ellenburg. That is about 80 square miles, close to half of Bellmont's land. It stays private working forest, open to the public on 14 public use areas, and nine of them lie all or partly in Bellmont:
| Public use area | Acres | Town or towns |
|---|---|---|
| Sugarloaf | 5,460 | Bellmont |
| Figure 8 | 3,939 | Bellmont |
| Plumadore-Inman | 3,919 | Franklin and Bellmont |
| Cold Brook | 2,542 | Bellmont and Saranac |
| Rocky Brook | 1,646 | Bellmont |
| Lilypad | 1,052 | Bellmont |
| Owls Head | 598 | Bellmont |
| Barnes Brook | 561 | Bellmont |
| Ingraham West | 392 | Bellmont |
Figure 8, in the hills west of Lower Chateaugay Lake, is the second-largest of the 14 areas, and in 2020 the register at its parking area showed mostly hunters and anglers. Most of the rest of the easement is leased to private hunting and fishing clubs and closed to the public except on signed corridors; the Owls Head guide explains how that works. Parking on a corridor or its shoulders is not allowed except in an emergency or at a marked pull-off, where a car may not be left unattended. Which corridors are open to cars, snowmobiles and ATVs has changed since the 2008 plan, so check DEC's current Sable Highlands rules and maps before you drive in; the snowmobile and ATV page has the current ATV rules.
The same plan lists moose, common loons, bald eagles, peregrine falcons and a bat hibernaculum on or near the land, and calls it one of the highest concentrations of moose in the state. The wildlife guide has where and when to look.
The town government
The town board is a supervisor and four council members. The town also has a clerk, a justice, an assessor, a tax collector, a code officer and a highway superintendent, and its office is the town hall at 9 Hill Road in Brainardsville. The board meets at 6:30 p.m., most months on the third Monday, usually at the town office; in 2026 the July and August meetings were set for the Owls Head Mountain View Community Center, and the year's last meetings fall on October 19, November 16 and December 21. Meetings are open. Members of the public speak after the agenda business, give their name and town, and get five minutes.
The clerk keeps office hours on the second and fourth Tuesdays from 4 to 6:30 p.m. at the town hall, with Saturday appointments at the Owls Head fire station, and sells hunting and fishing licenses and dog licenses. The town court sits on the second and fourth Mondays at 7 p.m. Building, well drilling, septic work and demolition all start with a call to the code officer, and properties inside the Adirondack Park also need a jurisdictional determination from the Adirondack Park Agency. The town's official newspaper is the Malone Telegram.
In 2026 the board updated its building-code law in May and, in July, adopted a moratorium on battery energy storage systems, set for a year with two possible extensions, after a solar company began planning one on Bunker Hill, the hill named for Smith Bunker, whose farm was on it. The town also keeps host agreements with two wind farms, and EDP Renewables' 78-megawatt Jericho Rise Wind Farm stands between the towns of Chateaugay and Bellmont near the Chateaugay River. Under the town's rules, dogs off their owner's property must be leashed, so keep yours on a leash on walks along the town roads; the dog guide has the rest.
Roads, plowing and the highway department
The roads around the cabins have different owners. County Routes 25 and 27 are Franklin County roads, part of a county network of just over 266 miles. Town roads, Wolf Pond Road among them, are the town's job. Under state highway law the town highway superintendent must keep town highways free of obstructions caused by snow, and the crew works out of two garages, one in Owls Head and one at Bellmont Center. Some lanes are private: in July 2026 the superintendent noted that Papoose Lane is a private road the town does not maintain. The town also no longer maintains County Route 24, Brainardsville Road, for the county, so its crew is not responsible for conditions there.
Winter 2025 to 2026 was hard on the equipment. The January 2026 minutes record many costly breakdowns of the aging plow trucks, the start of a search for a new truck, and paperwork for a $2,000 Franklin County Soil and Water grant toward a plow blade. Summer is the other half of the work: in July 2026 the crew was mowing roadsides, handling washouts and getting ready to blacktop, and a $283,000 reimbursement from the state's CHIPS road program came in that month.
Tips for guests on the town's roads:
- Take the hamlets slowly. A resident raised speeding on County Route 27 with the town board in July 2026.
- Every building in the town with electric or phone service must show its 911 number on the mailbox and on the building, so emergency crews can find it.
- Give the plows room and leave extra time after a storm; the winter driving guide and getting to the cabins cover the last miles.
- Under the town's Local Law 1 of 2002, ATVs may use the town roads it opened, where they are posted; the snowmobile and ATV page lists them.
Post offices, fire and emergencies
The Owls Head post office, at 16 Ragged Lake Road about three and a half road miles from the cabins, is the closest. The Postal Service lists its counter as open weekday mornings from 8 to noon and Saturdays from 8 to 11:45, with the lobby open until 5 on weekdays. It closed for a time in 2020 over a problem with the building, so check the hours before you count on it. Brainardsville's post office, at 2399 County Route 24, was listed as temporarily closed in October 2026, with its work moved to Chateaugay's post office at 19 River Street. Malone's, at 482 East Main Street, is open weekdays 8:30 to 5 and Saturdays 9 to noon.
The Owls Head Mountain View Volunteer Fire Company has its station on Ragged Lake Road in Owls Head; it is a volunteer company and has been a tax-exempt charity since 2007. The town board keeps liaisons with it and with the Burke Volunteer Fire Department. For any emergency, call 911. The nearest hospital is Alice Hyde Medical Center in Malone, about 10.5 road miles from the cabins, with a 24-hour emergency department; the health and safety page has the rest.
Plan for trash. The town runs no landfill, dumping anywhere else brings fines, and open burning is not allowed. Franklin County's solid waste sites are on Brand Road in Malone and on County Route 20 in Constable. Ask the host what to do with garbage before you leave.
Stores and food in the town
For a full shop, Malone is the place, about ten road miles north; the groceries page has the stores and their hours. Inside the town the useful stop is Cooks' Country Store, the on-farm store of the Cook family's farm at 189 Ragged Lake Road in Owls Head, about 4.1 road miles from the cabins. A self-checkout kiosk keeps it open around the clock. It stocks local meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, honey, maple syrup and produce along with everyday essentials, and the farm is best known for the soap it makes from its own goats' milk. Check the farm's website for what is on the shelves that week.
For a meal out, Trailside Bar and Restaurant, at 1592 County Route 27 in Owls Head about five road miles from the cabins, is a bar and grill that serves burgers and wings; the where to eat page has its hours and the restaurants in Malone. On the east side, Chateaugay village, about five and a half road miles north of Brainardsville, has food and fuel.
The year in Bellmont
Winter is snowmobile season. Two county trails serve the west of the town: S78, about 7.4 miles, by Owls Head, which leaves the C7 corridor just west of Indian Lake, and C8A, about 7 miles, by Mountain View. The C7 guide has the network, and the lakes guide covers ice fishing on the lakes.
Summer is lake season. For the Fourth of July 2026, the nation's 250th birthday, the Mountain View Association planned to bring back its boat parade, once a yearly event, after a few years without one; ask the host in June whether it is on for the coming summer. A plaque at the Chateaugay Town Hall, dedicated in July 2026, names 17 Revolutionary War veterans buried in Chateaugay, Bellmont and Burke, two of them in Bellmont.
Fall brings color and hunting. The Sable Highlands public use areas are open to hunting, and much of the land around them is leased to hunting clubs, so wear bright colors in the woods in season and check DEC's dates. The foliage guide has the color timing, and the events calendar covers the county.
Getting around the town from the cabins
| Place | Road miles | About | Way |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owls Head hamlet, post office, fire station | 3.5 | 10 minutes | Local roads |
| Cooks' Country Store | 4.1 | 10 to 15 minutes | Local roads |
| Mountain View | 6.4 | 15 to 20 minutes | County Route 27 |
| Bryants Mill | 7.9 | 20 to 25 minutes | County Route 27, Wolf Pond Road |
| Ragged Lake | 8.2 | 25 minutes | Ragged Lake Road |
| Porcaville | 8.9 | 20 to 25 minutes | County Route 27 |
| Wolf Pond | 11.7 | 35 minutes | County Route 27, Wolf Pond Road |
| Bellmont Center | 17.0 | 35 to 40 minutes | Malone, County Route 24 |
| Brainardsville, town hall | 27.4 | 45 minutes | Malone, US 11, NY 374 |
| Lower Chateaugay Lake | 30.4 | 50 minutes | Malone, US 11, NY 374 |
An east-side loop fills half a day: north to Malone and out County Route 24 to Bellmont Center, 17 miles; on to Brainardsville, 5.1 miles; north on NY 374 to Chateaugay village, 5.5 miles, for lunch; and home by US 11 and Malone, about 22 miles. That is about 50 miles and an hour and a half of driving. Add Lower Chateaugay Lake and High Falls Park with the Chateaugay Lakes guide.
A west-side morning stays close: Owls Head for the mail and the farm store, then Mountain View and Indian lakes, then Wolf Pond Road south toward the Sable Highlands. The Owls Head guide has the hike above the hamlet, and the cabins are about ten minutes from Owls Head.
Learning more about the town
The town's website posts its board minutes, its local laws and a copy of the Bellmont chapter of Frederick J. Seaver's 1918 Historical Sketches of Franklin County, the history quoted here. The post of town historian was listed as not yet filled at the start of 2026. For county history and family research, the Franklin County Historical and Museum Society's House of History in Malone is the place; see the Malone history guide.
Questions
Which town are the cabins in?
The Town of Bellmont in Franklin County, near the hamlet of Owls Head, about ten road miles south of Malone village off County Route 25. Malone is the place for groceries, fuel and the hospital. Bellmont's own town hall is in Brainardsville on the east side of the town, about 27 road miles away by way of Malone and Chateaugay.
Is Lake Titus in the Town of Bellmont?
No. Lake Titus, Elephant's Head and the Titus Mountain base lodge lie west of the town line, in the Town of Malone. Mountain View Lake, Indian Lake, Ragged Lake, High Falls on the Salmon River and the summit of Owls Head are in Bellmont. The lakes guide covers Lake Titus, Indian Lake and Mountain View Lake.
Where is the nearest post office to the cabins?
In Owls Head, at 16 Ragged Lake Road, about three and a half road miles away. The Postal Service lists its counter as open weekday mornings from 8 to noon and Saturdays from 8 to 11:45. It closed for a time in 2020, so check the hours before you go. Malone's post office at 482 East Main Street is open weekdays 8:30 to 5 and Saturdays 9 to noon.
Who plows the roads near the cabins?
Town roads are the town highway department's job, and state law has the highway superintendent keep them free of obstructions caused by snow; the crew works from garages in Owls Head and Bellmont Center. County Routes 25 and 27 are Franklin County roads. The winter driving guide has tips for the last miles after a storm.
Can I buy groceries in the Town of Bellmont?
Basics, yes. Cooks' Country Store, the farm store at 189 Ragged Lake Road in Owls Head, about 4.1 road miles from the cabins, stocks local meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods and produce along with everyday essentials, and a self-checkout kiosk keeps it open around the clock. For a full shop, go to Malone; the groceries page lists the stores.
Can I hike on the Sable Highlands land in Bellmont?
On the public use areas, yes. Nine of the easement's 14 public use areas lie all or partly in Bellmont, among them the 598-acre Owls Head area and the 5,460-acre Sugarloaf area, the largest of the 14. Most of the rest is leased to private clubs and closed to the public, so stay on the public areas and signed corridors. The Owls Head guide covers the best-known trail.
How many people live in the Town of Bellmont?
About 1,300. The Census Bureau counted 1,327 in April 2020 and estimates 1,328 for July 2025, on 164 square miles of land, or about eight people per square mile. The 2010 census counted 1,434. Close to half the town's land is in the Sable Highlands conservation easement.
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Facts on this page were checked against these sources in October 2026. Hours, fees and schedules change; confirm before you go.
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- wiki.historicsaranaclake.org wiki.historicsaranaclake.org/index.php/Early_history_of_northern_n.y.
- nysenate.gov nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/HAY/140
- Franklin County, New York franklincountyny.gov/departments/highway_department/
- edp.com edp.com/en/north-america/north-america/projects/jericho-rise-wind-farm
- townofbellmontny.org townofbellmontny.org/local-laws
- img1.wsimg.com img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/e6dddd52-d73b-4301-94c0-21f07a4f01ac/download
- archive.org archive.org/details/historicalsketch00seav
- tigerweb.geo.census.gov tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Census2
- tigerweb.geo.census.gov tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Current
- gisservices.its.ny.gov gisservices.its.ny.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NYS_Civil_Boundaries/Featu
- tools.usps.com tools.usps.com/locations/details/1376497
- tools.usps.com tools.usps.com/locations/details/1355660
- tools.usps.com tools.usps.com/locations/details/1371560
- img1.wsimg.com img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/e6dddd52-d73b-4301-94c0-21f07a4f01ac/download
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- Franklin County tourism (Always Franklin) alwaysfranklin.com/listing/trailside-bar-and-restaurant
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The first of the cabins: a big stone fire pit you see as you walk up, a screened corner of the deck, direct trail access, and a short walk to an observation deck over the pond.
The Modern Tiny HomeCabin 1 · 2 bd · 1 ba · sleeps 4More in Towns & History
Sources
47 references, listed in full at the end of this guide: official park, state, tourism-office and business sources, checked October 2026.


