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September 2025 Events from the
Clinton County Historical Association
September 9, 2025
Press Release
These events are free and open to the public. Thank you for sharing our history.
September 11, 11 am. Battle of Plattsburgh Event - Ceremony honoring all veterans interred on Crab Island. Laying of wreath taps and rifle volley. The American flag will be raised and lowered. Sponsored by American Legion Post 1619. The ceremony can be viewed from the Battlefield Memorial Gateway across from Clare & Carl’s on Route 9 South.
September 11, 2:30 pm, Meadowbrook Healthcare, 154 Prospect Avenue, Plattsburgh.
Catholic Summer School of America with Robin LaBarge. Hear the story and see photos of the school which dominated the landscape of Cliff Haven from 1893 to 1950 and attracted thousands of summer visitors to the Plattsburgh area.
September 12, 10:30 am, Clinton County Historical Association, 98 Ohio Avenue Plattsburgh. Walking Tour of the Oval with visits to the Officers’ Quarters and the Plattsburgh Memorial Chapel.
September 16, 6:45 pm, Lake Forest Retirement Community, 8 Lake Forest Drive, Plattsburgh. "Lost Plattsburgh: Our Missing Architectural Roots” Focusing on the architecture and importance of Plattsburgh buildings destroyed by fire or willful act, and picking up where Allan Everest left off in Our North Country Heritage (1972), the presentation discusses how their loss has left a lamentable gap in our nineteenth- and twentieth-century history. With Dr. James M. Lindgren, Professor Emeritus, SUNY, Dept. of History
September 18, 1:30 pm, Champlain Valley Senior Community, 10 Gilliland Lane, Willsboro Catholic Summer School of America with Robin LaBarge. Hear the story and see photos of the school which dominated the landscape of Cliff Haven from 1893 to 1950 and attracted thousands of summer visitors to the Plattsburgh area.
September 18, 6:30 pm, America250 Event, Krinovitz Hall in Hawkins Hall at SUNY Plattsburgh. Black Women’s Legacies in the Revolutionary War with Dr. Alexandria Russell, author of Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen.
September 19, 12:30 pm, Plattsburgh Senior Center, 5139 North Catherine Street, Plattsburgh. Clinton County’s Amazing Women with Helen Nerska. The stories of Suffragist and community Leader Marie Parkhurst Booth and the first female State Judge Luella Robinson North. A series highlighting Clinton County Women who made a difference.
September 25, 6:30 pm, Clinton County Historical Association, 98 Ohio Avenue, Plattsburgh The Origins of Plattsburgh’s French-Canadian Community with Dr. Mark Richard. Learn about the migration of French Canadians to Plattsburgh and the Catholic community they developed here.
Please contact Helen Nerska, Director, Clinton County Historical Association for more information.
Press Release
These events are free and open to the public. Thank you for sharing our history.
September 11, 11 am. Battle of Plattsburgh Event - Ceremony honoring all veterans interred on Crab Island. Laying of wreath taps and rifle volley. The American flag will be raised and lowered. Sponsored by American Legion Post 1619. The ceremony can be viewed from the Battlefield Memorial Gateway across from Clare & Carl’s on Route 9 South.
September 11, 2:30 pm, Meadowbrook Healthcare, 154 Prospect Avenue, Plattsburgh.
Catholic Summer School of America with Robin LaBarge. Hear the story and see photos of the school which dominated the landscape of Cliff Haven from 1893 to 1950 and attracted thousands of summer visitors to the Plattsburgh area.
September 12, 10:30 am, Clinton County Historical Association, 98 Ohio Avenue Plattsburgh. Walking Tour of the Oval with visits to the Officers’ Quarters and the Plattsburgh Memorial Chapel.
September 16, 6:45 pm, Lake Forest Retirement Community, 8 Lake Forest Drive, Plattsburgh. "Lost Plattsburgh: Our Missing Architectural Roots” Focusing on the architecture and importance of Plattsburgh buildings destroyed by fire or willful act, and picking up where Allan Everest left off in Our North Country Heritage (1972), the presentation discusses how their loss has left a lamentable gap in our nineteenth- and twentieth-century history. With Dr. James M. Lindgren, Professor Emeritus, SUNY, Dept. of History
September 18, 1:30 pm, Champlain Valley Senior Community, 10 Gilliland Lane, Willsboro Catholic Summer School of America with Robin LaBarge. Hear the story and see photos of the school which dominated the landscape of Cliff Haven from 1893 to 1950 and attracted thousands of summer visitors to the Plattsburgh area.
September 18, 6:30 pm, America250 Event, Krinovitz Hall in Hawkins Hall at SUNY Plattsburgh. Black Women’s Legacies in the Revolutionary War with Dr. Alexandria Russell, author of Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen.
September 19, 12:30 pm, Plattsburgh Senior Center, 5139 North Catherine Street, Plattsburgh. Clinton County’s Amazing Women with Helen Nerska. The stories of Suffragist and community Leader Marie Parkhurst Booth and the first female State Judge Luella Robinson North. A series highlighting Clinton County Women who made a difference.
September 25, 6:30 pm, Clinton County Historical Association, 98 Ohio Avenue, Plattsburgh The Origins of Plattsburgh’s French-Canadian Community with Dr. Mark Richard. Learn about the migration of French Canadians to Plattsburgh and the Catholic community they developed here.
Please contact Helen Nerska, Director, Clinton County Historical Association for more information.
