CLINTON COUNTY CHAMPLAIN

QUADCENTENNIAL MURAL

More than 1,000 seventh-graders from local school districts created a ceramic mural that spans the American Indian inhabitation of the area to

1878, when the last municipality was chartered.  The mural covers 35 feet by 10 feet of the south wall of the Government Center, outside

the building near the parking lot.  The mural's time line coincides with some of the major events in Clinton County's history and reflect

larger themes of life in the area. Besides touching on native inhabitants of the area, the mural will include Samuel de Champlain's arrival, the

Revolutionary War, settlement, iron and industry, the War of 1812, transportation, prisons, the abolition movement and Underground Railroad

 

 

 

Tiles were completed by Students in AuSable Valley Central School, Beekmantown Central School, Chazy Central School, Northeastern Central

    School, Northern Adirondack Central School, Peru Central School, Stafford Middle School and Seton Catholic.

 First Nations — Northern Adirondack Elementary School, Ellenburg.

1609 Samuel de Champlain, early French settlers — Northeastern Clinton Central School, Champlain.

"On the far left is an Indian maiden looking back toward history. She's
holding a basket. After the Indian maiden, Samuel de Champlain is coming in a
birch bark canoe with two Indians."
 

 

 1750-1776 Early settlers, Battle of Valcour — Seton Academy, Plattsburgh.

 

 1780-1800 Settlement of the county — Chazy Central Rural School.

1806 Iron and industry — Ausable Valley Central School.

 1812-1814 Battle of Plattsburgh, Stafford Middle School.

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 1815-1830 Early transportation — Beekmantown Central School.

 1840 Dannemora Prison, Redford Glass Co. — Saranac Central School.

 1850-1870 Underground Railroad, Industrialization — Peru Central School

 

 

  2011