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Black Brook- 1880 Black Brook, a post-village of Clinton co., N.Y., in Black Brook township, about 22 miles S.W. of Plattsburg. It has 2 churches, 2 saw-mills, and 2 bloom-forges. The township is intersected by the Saranac River, and has mines of iron ore. The surface is mountainous. Total pop. 3561.

Source:

• Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World,  J.B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, 1885 [1st printing 1880], pp. 241-242; transcribed 31 July 2002 by Bridget E. Morrissey.