Town of Brighton
The Town of Brighton covers 8340 square miles in Franklin County, New York, at an altitude averaging 1640 feet. Brighton lies in three different major watersheds: the Saranac/Chazy-Lake Champlain watershed, the St. Regis-St. Lawrence watershed, and the Salmon/Trout-St. Lawrence watershed. Brighton is 26% wetlands and nearly the entire town is underlain by a high-quality aquifer. Many of the wetland areas are home to rare and threatened species such as spruce grouse, moose and three-toed woodpecker.
Approximately 47% of the land in Brighton is state-owned. Paul Smith's College ownership accounts for an additional 20% of town acreage. Within the Town are the small settlements of Gabriels, Keese Mills, Onchiota, Paul Smiths, Rainbow Lake and McColloms.
Leon Redwood served as superintendent of highways in the 1960s.
- Brighton Town Hall
- Brighton Notables
- Brighton Area Guides
- Brighton History Days
- Brighton Curing Timeline
- Curing in Brighton
- How Brighton Got Its Name
- Paul Smith's Hotel
- Paul Smith's Electric Railroad
- Sunnyside Hotel
- St. Gabriel
- First Methodist Episcopal Church of Brighton
- St. Regis Presbyterian
- St. John's in the Wilderness
- Benjamin A. Muncil
- Famous Visitors
History of Clinton and Franklin counties, New York, (1880) p. 398, gives the population of the Town of Brighton as follows:{|
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The Palladium Malone, Thursday, Dec 19, 1867
Abstracts of Accounts audited by the Board of Town Auditors of the town of Brighton, at their annual session, Nov. 7, 1867:{| <tbody>|-/n| ||Names and Nature of Demand||Claim||Allow'd|/n|-/n|1||J M Wardner,||supervisor||$29.81||$29.81|/n|-/n|2||F T B Weller,||town clerk||$12.00||$12.00|/n|-/n|3||A C McCollum,||com. of highways||$15.00||$15.00|/n|-/n|4||Heman G. Wilcox,||assessor and insp'r||$16.50||$16.50|/n|-/n|5||John Redwood,||"||$12.75||$12.75|/n|-/n|6||Luther M. Collins,||"||$7.50||$7.50|/n|-/n|7||Joshua Otis,||inspector||$6.50||$6.50|/n|-/n|8||J Quarter,||"||$11.00||$11.00|/n|-/n|9||S Wardner,||com. highways, 1866||$8.75||$8.75|/n|-/n|10||D C Skiff,||justice of the peace||$8.00||$8.00|/n|-/n|11||Wm Otis,||constable||$2.55||$2.55|/n|-/n|12||A K Wilcox,||"||$8.35||$8.35|/n</tbody> |}
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