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| | Popeville: Franklin County Ghost Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Popeville seems to have sprung full-grown from the riverbank at the northern end of Chateaugay Lake in defiance of natural conditions and as a direct result of movements toward the opening of the Chateaugay ore bed eleven miles away at Lyon Mountain. |
 | | The ‘company’ was organized as two separate but complimentary entities: the Chateaugay Ore Co. (Smith M. Weed and Andrew Williams of Plattsburgh), which mined the ore and delivered it to various forges on the Saranac and Chateaugay rivers, and Pope, Williams and Co. (Williams, Weed, and L. |
 | | The Chateaugay Ore Company and the Chateaugay Iron Company on May 1, 1881, announced consolidation, becoming the Chateaugay Ore and Iron Company, whose stock was sold at $150 per 100 shares, and whose iron sold to the government for two cents more per pound than any other iron. |
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