Sherman Free Library

Sherman Free Library is an historic free association library, located in the hamlet of Port Henry, in the town of Moriah, in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1887 and has two rooms, and is a 1+1⁄2-story brick building topped by slate-covered, steeply pitched gable roofs, on a limestone foundation.

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Type: Library
Description: public library in Port Henry, New York, United States
Address: 4 Church Street, Port Henry, NY 12974

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mount Moriah Presbyterian Church and Port Henry station.

Mount Moriah Presbyterian Church

Church

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Mount Moriah Presbyterian Church, also known as First Presbyterian Church, is a historic Presbyterian church located at Church and S. Main Sts, NW corner, Town of Moriah in Port Henry, Essex County, New York.

Port Henry station

Railway station

Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Port Henry station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Port Henry, New York served by the Adirondack. The station has one low-level side platform on the west side of the track. Port Henry station is situated 1,900 feet south of Sherman Free Library.

Moriah Town Office Building

Building

Photo: Enesse Bhé, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Moriah Town Office Building is a historic town hall building, located at Port Henry in Essex County, New York, built in 1875. It is a massive, 3-story rectangular, five-by-three-bay, brick building capped by a concave mansard roof in the Second Empire style. Moriah Town Office Building is situated 720 feet northwest of Sherman Free Library.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Port Henry and Chimney Point.

Port Henry

Village

Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Port Henry is a hamlet in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,194 at the 2010 census. Port Henry lies on the eastern side of the town of Moriah and is approximately one hour's drive south of Plattsburgh.

Chimney Point

Hamlet

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Chimney Point is a peninsula in the town of Addison, Vermont, which juts into Lake Champlain forming a narrows. It is one of the earliest settled and most strategic sites in the Champlain Valley. Chimney Point is situated 2 miles east of Sherman Free Library.

Moriah

Village

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Moriah is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. Lying within the Adirondack Park, it is situated in the eastern part of the county, 47 miles by road south-southwest of Burlington, Vermont, 55 miles south of Plattsburgh, 115 miles north of Albany, and 116 miles south of Montreal, Quebec. Moriah is situated 2 miles west of Sherman Free Library.

Sherman Free Library

Categories: library building, main library, public library, building, and education
Location: Town of Moriah, Essex, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

44.04749° or 44° 2′ 51″ north

Longitude

-73.4601° or 73° 27′ 36″ west

Elevation

240 feet (73 metres)

Open location code

87P82GWQ+XX

OpenStreetMap ID

way 814655534

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=library

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

GeoNames ID

8084559

Wikidata ID

Q7495172

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