Keese Mill, New York
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Keese Mill—better known locally as Keese's Mills, but also spelled as Keeses Mill and Keeses Mills—is a
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west of Paul Smiths in the Town of Brighton,
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, United States, in the
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. It is named for a settlement established by employees of the two sawmills established by Keese and Tomlinson near their dam on the outlet of Lower St. Regis Lake Saint Regis River in mid-nineteenth century. Keese Mill road, which starts at Paul Smiths, is the only road in the hamlet; it provides access to Black Pond and Long Pond, trails to Saint Regis and Jenkins Mountains and the Saint Regis Esker Trail, and the middle branch of the Saint Regis River. At present, before reaching its end, it transitions to an unpaved dirt road, and at its end, it becomes the Blue Mountain Road and continues onward to NYS Route 458. The middle section is a seasonal road closed to traffic during the winter season.


History

Oliver Keese and Thomas A. Tomlinson, lumbermen and mill operators from Keeseville, New York, built a sawmill there in 1851, which became the center of a small community.Seaver, Frederick J., ''Historical Sketches of Franklin County'', Albany: J.B. Lyon & Co., 1918, p. 206 (se
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In 1923
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built Camp Topridge, a
Great Camp __NOTOC__ The Great Camps of the Adirondack Mountains are often grandiose family compounds of cabins that were built in the latter half of the nineteenth century on lakes in the Adirondacks. The camps were summer homes for the wealthy, sites ...
on the
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between the nearby Spectacle Ponds and Upper Saint Regis Lake. It was listed on the
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in 1986.


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Further reading

*Jamieson, Paul and Morris, Donald, ''Adirondack Canoe Waters, North Flow'', Lake George, NY: Adirondack Mountain Club, 1987. . {{coord, 44, 25, 57, N, 74, 17, 46, W, display=title Adirondacks Hamlets in New York (state) Hamlets in Franklin County, New York