Plattsburg
a town and countyseat of Clinton co., N. Y.; at the mouth of the Saranac river, which here enters Cumberland Bay, a part of Lake Champlain, and on the Delaware and Hudson, and the Chateaugay railroads; about 155 miles N. of Albany. Here are electric lights, public library, court house and jail, barracks for United States soldiers, custom house, Home for Aged Ladies, Home for the Friendless, Plattsburg Academy, a State Normal school, National banks, and a number of daily and weekly newspapers. The town has a large harbor, and ships lumber, grain, and other commodities. It has manufactures of shirts, wood pulp, sewing machines, etc. On Oct. 11, 1776, one of the earliest naval actions of the Revolutionary War took place here, Benedict Arnold commanding the American forces. manufacturing towns of Saxony; on the On Sept. 11, 1814, Commodore Mc- Donough gh gained a remarkable victory berland over the British fleet in Cumberland Bay. About the same time an American army under General Macomb repulsed a superior force which, under General Prevost, had attacked the town. Pop. (1910) 11,138; (1920) 10,909.
PLATTSBURG TRAINING CAMPS, United States military barracks, established in 1838 and having a reservation of over 700 acres on the W. side of Lake Champlain, S. of Plattsburg, N. Y., on the Delaware and Hudson railroad. The barracks are among the largest in the United States, and is usually garrisoned by a regiment of infantry. The reservation has often been used as a training camp in military exercises by business men from New York and the surrounding towns, and in 1915 a training camp was established there by the Government.
During the campaign for preparedness that preceded the entry of the United States into the European War, exercises in drill were carried on at Plattsburg continually, and college and business men went in large numbers to submit themselves to training. After the entry of the United States into the war, the training camps were greatly extended, and recruits were there put through their drill in great numbers.
Elster, 72 miles S. of Leipsic. Its chief industries are the manufacture of cotton goods, muslin, cambric, jaconet, and embroidered fabrics, with in a secondary degree cigars, paper, machinery. Pop. about 130,000.