POTSDAM

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POTSDAM , a

village

VILLAGE

of St Lawrence county, New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

, U.S.A., in the township of Potsdam, on the Raquette river, about 68 m. N.E. of Watertown. Pop. of the

village

VILLAGE

(1905) 4162; (1910) 4036; of the township (1905) 8992; (1910) 8725. The village is served by the New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

Central & Hudson River railway. It has a public library and is the seat of a state Normal School (1869), an outgrowth of St Lawrence

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

(founded in 1810 by Benjamin Raymond and maintained by him until 1816, when it was incorporated); of the

Thomas

S. Clarkson Memorial School of Technology (1896), founded by his sisters in honour of

Thomas

Streatfield Clarkson (18371894); and of the Crane Normal Institute of Music. The village has a considerable trade in dairy products. In the neighbourhood are extensive quarries of the well-known " Potsdam sandstone," the uppermost division of the Cambrian system, described as a " fine-grained sandstone cemented with silica," and very durable. The House of

Parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

at Quebec, All Saints Cathedral at Albany, New York, and many other public edifices were built of this stone.
The " Ten Towns " of St Lawrence county, including the township of Potsdam, were sold by the state in 1787. The first

settlement

SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

was made on the Raquette river, close to the present village, in 1803; the township was incorporated in 1806 and the village in 1831. Potsdam was named after Potsdam in Prussia because of the occurrence in each locality of reddish sandstone.

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