2019 Map of Brainardsville

About this map

Brainardsville serves as the primary settlement hub in this northern New York landscape, situated where the Chateaugay River flows toward the Canadian border. The area is defined by its transition from low-lying river valleys and Lower Chateaugay Lake in the east to the more prominent peaks of the Adirondack Park in the south, including Soulia Mtn and Baldy Mtn. The map reveals a high density of small family and community burial grounds, such as Bigelow Cem, Merrill Cem, and Bunker Hill Cem, which are invaluable for genealogical research in this rural pocket of Clinton and Franklin Counties. These sites, often positioned along early roads like Snow Schoolhouse Rd and Jericho Rd, suggest a long-established pattern of dispersed upland farming and mountain-side settlement characteristic of the northern Adirondack foothills.