City Hall Place
Plattsburgh
Bay with Haze
Cumberland Head
Plattsburgh Airforce Base 1995 vs PARC 2020
Before and after the Airforce base closed in Plattsburgh.
LEFT - 1995
RIGHT - 2020
Reports on arterial routes in New York state urban areas … (1951:Plattsburgh)
Plattsburgh could have had it's very own Lakefront Arterial in front of City Hall had the NYS Public Works Department gotten it's 1947 plan for the city.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu02334372&view=1up&seq=63
Plattsburgh Exit 38 Cloverleaf
This cloverleaf on the north-side of city seems much overscaled, but probably the land was poor and polluted here, and it made sense to provide arterial access to Dannemora and points to the north and west, I guess.
Water Pollution in Lake Champlain, Georgia-Pacific Mill 1964
Back in 1964, water pollution was much less regulated in New York State, and waste water from the toilet paper making process was dumped directly into Lake Champlain, leaving the area around Wilcox Dock looking very white in color on this Spring 1964 aerial photo.