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Clinton County Post Offices
Then and Now

Post Office	Year Started	Year Ended	Township	Comments
Aaronsburgh	1852	1853
Acuny	1947	1954	Plattsburgh	Branch of Plattsburgh post office
Alder Bend	1882	1895	Altona
Alderbend	1895	1903	Altona
Alder Brook	1857	1927		Part of Franklin Co. (included former Union Falls post office after 1917)
Altona	1858	Present	Altona
Ausable Chasm	1876	1887	Ausable	Part of Essex Co.
AuSable Chasm	1887	1895	Ausable
Ausable Chasm	1895	1988	Ausable
Ausable Forks	1895	1905		Part of Essex Co. (but sections of town were in Clinton Co.)
Au Sable Forks	1828	1895		Part of Essex Co. (but sections of town were in Clinton Co.)
Au Sable Forks	1905	Present		Part of Essex Co. (but sections of town were in Clinton Co.)
Beekmantown	1822	1902	Beekmantown
Blackbrook	1894	1923	Black Brook
Black Brook	1833	1894	Black Brook
Cadyville	1840	Present	Schuyler Falls
Champlain	1810	Present	Champlain
Champlaintown	1797	1810	Champlain
Chateaugay	1807	1808		Became part of Franklin Co. in 1808
Chateaugay	1808	Present		Part of Franklin Co.
Chazy	1806	Present	Chazy
Chazy Lake	1904	1929
Churubusco	1852	Present	Clinton
Clayburg	1894	1956	Black Brook/ Saranac
Clayburgh	1863	1894	Black Brook/ Saranac
Cliff Haven	1897	1944	Plattsburgh
Clinton Mills	1866	1915
Clintonville	1832	Present	Ausable	Rural branch of Keeseville post office from 1966 to present
Comfort	1896	1899
Coopersville	1841	1852	Champlain	Also 1864 to 1925
Coopersville	1864	1925	Champlain	Also 1841 to 1852
Corbean	1830	1831
Dannemora	1850	Present	Dannemora
Disco	1892	1912
East Beekmantown	1853	1917	Bookmantown
East Peru	1848	1853
Ellenburg	1893	Present	Ellenburg
Ellenburg Center	1893	Present	Ellenburg
Ellenburg Depot	1894	Present	Ellenburg
Ellenburgh	1830	1893	Ellenburg	Also called Ellenburgh Corners (1869)
Ellenburgh Centre	1856	1893	Ellenburg
Ellenburgh Depot	1859	1894	Ellenburg
Farrell Place	1840	1853
Ferrona	1870	1898
Forest	1865	1954	Altona/ Ellenburg
Fort Covington	1817	Present		Part of Franklin Co. (included former French Mills post office after 1817)
French Mills	1811	1817		Serviced by Fort Covington post office in Franklin Co. starting in 1817
Frontier	1849	1915	Clinton
Garlick Falls	1856	1863
Harkness	1888	1933	Peru
Harrison	1807	1808		May have become part of Franklin Co. for a short time in 1808 before being discontinued
Hawkeye	1905	1973	Ausable	Rural branch of Au Sable Forks post office from 1958 to 1973
Hotel Champlain	1890	1951	Plattsburgh
Hoyleton	1852	1852	Champlain
Hurlbut's Mills	1853	1856
Ingraham	1854	1901	Chazy
Irona	1868	1957	Altona	Also called Irona Depot (1869)
Keeseville	1822	Present		Part of Essex Co. (but sections of town were in Clinton Co.)
Lapham	1882	1909	Peru	;
Lawrence's Mills	1823	1833	Chazy
Lobdell	1897	1923	Saranac
Louise	1900	1903	Saranac	Also 1910 to 1910
Louise	1910	1910	Saranac	Also 1900 to 1903
Lyon Mountain	1878	1881		Also 1886 to Present
Lyon Mountain	1886	Present		Also 1878 to 1881
Malone	1807	1808		Became part of Franklin Co. in 1808
Malone	1808	Present		Part of Franklin Co.
Meaders	1898	1900	Plattsburgh
Merrill	1885	1979		Rural branch of Lyon Mountain post office from 1964 to 1979
Military	1917	1947	Plattsburgh	Branch of Plattsburgh post office
Moffitsville	1876	1946	Saranac
Moira	1807	1808		Became part of Franklin Co. in 1808
Moira	1808	Present		Part of Franklin Co.
Mooers	1853	Present	Mooers	Also called Mooers Village (1869)
Mooers Forks	1868	Present	Mooers
Moore's	1822	1853	Mooers
Moore's Forks	1850	1868	Mooers
Morrisonville	1851	Present
New Sweden	1830	1859	Ausable
North Plattsburgh	1833	1840
Pauls Rock	1891	1892
Peasleeville	1846	1851	Peru/ Schuyler Falls	Also 1864 to 1967
Peasleeville	1864	1967	Peru/ Schuyler Falls	Also 1846 to 1851
Perry's Mills	1831	1894	Champlain
Perrys Mills	1894	1934	Champlain
Peru	1798	Present	Peru
Plattsburg	1797	1827	Plattsburgh	Also 1894 to 1955
Plattsburg	1894	1955	Plattsburgh	Also 1797 to 1827
Plattsburg AFB	1956	1958	Plattsburgh	Station of Plattsburgh post office
Plattsburgh	1827	1894	Plattsburgh	Also 1955 to Present
Plattsburgh	1955	Present	Plattsburgh	Also 1827 to 1894
Plattsburgh AFB	1958	Present (?)	Plattsburgh	Branch of Plattsburgh post office
Point Au Rock	1879	1903	Plattsburgh
Ralph	1897	1915
Redford	1832	Present	Saranac
Riverview	1910	1956	Saranac
Robinson	1893	1902	Chazy
Rogersfield	1881	1886
Rouse Point	1895	1905	Champlain
Rouse's point	1823	1852	Champlain	Also 1852 to 1894
Rouse's Point	1852	1894	Champlain	Also 1823 to 1852
Rouses Point	1894	1895	Champlain	Also 1905 to Present
Rouses Point	1905	Present	Champlain	Also 1894 to 1895
Rouse's Point Village	1852	1854	Champlain
Russia Iron Works	1823	1832
Sampson's Pond	1854	1856
Saranac	1831	Present	Saranac
Schuyler Falls	1893	Present	Schuyler Falls
Schuyler's Falls	1833	1893	Schuyler Falls
Sciota	1848	1936	Chazy
Silver Lake	1862	1871	Black Brook
South Ellenburgh	1873	1875	Ellenburg
South Plattsburg	1894	1900	Plattsburgh
South Plattsburgh	1856	1894	Plattsburgh
Standish	1886	1969		Rural branch of Lyon Mountain from 1958 to 1969
Star	1892	1903	Ellenburg
Swastika	1913	1958	Peru
Union Falls	1833	1895		Also 1909 to 1917
Union Falls	1909	1917		Also 1833 to 1895 Serviced by Alder Brook post office in Franklin Co. starting in 1917
Unionfalls	1895	1909
Valcour	1855	1951	Peru/ Plattsburgh
West Ausable	1852	1853	Ausable
West Beekmantown	1889	1902
West Chazy	1833	Present	Chazy
West Plattsburg	1894	1906	Plattsburgh
West Plattsburgh	1840	1894	Plattsburgh
Willsboro	1893	Present		Part of Essex Co.
Willsborough	1797	1799		Became part of Essex Co. in 1799
Willsborough	1799	1893		Part of Essex Co.
Wood Falls	1893	1895	Mooers	Also 1908 to 1910
Wood Falls	1908	1910	Mooers	Also 1893 to 1895
Woodfalls	1895	1908	Mooers
Wood's Falls	1855	1856	Mooers	Also 1864 to 1893
Wood's Falls	1864	1893	Mooers	Also 1855 to 1856
Wrightsville	1848	1855

• New York Postal History: The Post Offices and First Postmasters from 1775 to 1980 John L. Kay and Chester M. Smith, American Philatelic Society, State College, Pennsylvania, 1982.

• United States Post Offices by County, United States Postal Service (USPS), online <https://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt006.cfm>, Clinton County, NY data downloaded 18 August 2002.

• United States Post Offices by County, United States Postal Service (USPS), online <https://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt006.cfm>, Essex County, NY data downloaded 18 August 2002.

• United States Post Offices by County, United States Postal Service (USPS), online <https://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt006.cfm>, Franklin County, NY data downloaded 18 August 2002.