Brighton
Brighton is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 1,435 at the 2010 census. It was named after Brighton, England, by early surveyors in the region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Municipality with 1,170 residents
- Description: town in Franklin County, New York, United States
- Also known as: “Brighton, Franklin County, New York”, “Brighton, New York”, “Brighton, NY”, and “Town of Brighton”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lower St. Regis Lake and Camp Gabriels.
Lower St. Regis Lake
Reservoir
Lower St. Regis Lake is a part of the St. Regis River in the Adirondacks in northern New York State. At its northern edge is Paul Smith's College, former site of Paul Smith's Hotel.
Camp Gabriels
Protected area
Camp Gabriels was a minimum security state prison, located in northern New York. This prison was located in the village of Gabriels in the Town of Brighton in Franklin County.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Paul Smiths and Gabriels.
Paul Smiths
Hamlet
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Paul Smiths is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Brighton in Franklin County, New York, United States. It is located on Lower Saint Regis Lake in the Adirondacks, 12 miles northwest of Saranac Lake, located at 44°26' North 74°15' West.
Gabriels
Hamlet
Gabriels is a hamlet in the town of Brighton in Franklin County, New York, United States, inside the Adirondack Park near Paul Smiths. The village developed around a tuberculosis cure facility, the Gabriels Sanatorium, which was opened in 1897 by the Catholic Sisters of Mercy.
Keese Mill
Hamlet
Keese Mill—better known locally as Keese's Mills, but also spelled as Keeses Mill and Keeses Mills—is a hamlet west of Paul Smiths in the Town of Brighton, Franklin County, New York, United States, in the Adirondacks.
Brighton
- Categories: town in the United States, town of New York, and locality
- Location: Franklin, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.4409° or 44° 26′ 27″ northLongitude
-74.2336° or 74° 14′ 1″ westPopulation
1,170Elevation
1,742 feet (531 metres)Open location code
87P7CQR8+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 9915958087OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipalityGeoNames ID
5110166Wikidata ID
Q2393161
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Uzbek—“Brighton” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Brighton”
- Chechen: “Брайтон”
- Chinese: “布賴頓 (紐約州富蘭克林縣)”
- Chinese: “布賴頓”
- French: “Brighton”
- German: “Brighton”
- Haitian: “Brighton, New York”
- Haitian: “Brighton”
- Hungarian: “Brighton”
- Korean: “브라이턴”
- Mazanderani: “برایتون، فرانکلین کانتی (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “برایتون، فرانکلین کانتی”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brighton”
- Polish: “Brighton”
- Russian: “Брайтон”
- Spanish: “Brighton”
- Tatar: “Брайтон”
- Turkish: “Brighton”
- Ukrainian: “Брайтон”
- Urdu: “برائٹن، فرینکلن کاؤنٹی، نیو یارک”
- Uzbek: “Brighton, Franklin County, New York”
- Uzbek: “Brighton”
- Uzbek: “Бригҳтон”
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Localities in the Area
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