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Dannemora- 1880 Dannemo'ra, a post-village of Clinton co., N.Y., in Dannemora township, about 14 miles W. of Plattsburg. A prison known as the Clinton State Prison was established here in 1845 in order to employ convicts in mining and manufacturing iron. Chazy Lake is in this township. Pop. of the township, 1294. Dannemora Station, several miles N. of the town limits, is on the Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain Railroad, 29 miles E. of Malone.

Source:

• Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World,  J.B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, 1885 [1st printing 1880], p. 558; transcribed 31 July 2002 by Bridget E. Morrissey.