Lost Village, New York
Lost Village is an unincorporated community in Oswegatchie, New York, in the northern part of St. Lawrence County.[1] It is located on the Oswegatchie River, near where it meets Black Lake. The site is less than a mile east of Galilee, and is about 4 mi (6.4 km) south of Ogdensburg.
Indigenous origins
Lost Village was originally an Indigenous site.[2] In 1910, a prehistoric burial site (including artifacts such as a pendant gorget) was uncovered nearby.[3] During Oswegatchie's early settler period of the 1790s into the 1810s, there was a hunting camp at Lost Village that belonged to the Oswegatchie tribe.[4]
Lost Village today
In the New York State Gazetteer, a register used by the state's Department of Health, Lost Village is recorded as a hamlet, under gazetteer code 4472.[5] Today, the site only consists of a small handful of farms and mobile homes, two cemeteries (the newer Pine Hill Cemetery and the abandoned Sand Road Cemetery), Eel Weir State Park, which includes a stone weir built by the Oswegatchie, a bridge over the Oswegatchie River, and the Eel Weir Dam.
References
- ↑ "Lost Village". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved February 5, 2026.
- ↑ Smithers, Nina W. & Biondi, Mary H. (October 1, 1965). "From Podunk to Zip Code 13652" (PDF). Saint Lawrence County Historical Society Quarterly. Gouverneur, NY: St. Lawrence County Historical Society. pp. 8–9. Retrieved December 17, 2025.
- ↑ Parker, Arthur C. (1920). "The Archaeological History of New York, Part 2". New York State Museum Bulletin. Albany, NY: The University of the State of New York. p. 689. OCLC 221117854. OL 23424832M. Retrieved December 18, 2025.
- ↑ Davies, William H. (February 13, 1954). "Black Lake Community" (Document). St. Lawrence County Center for History and Culture archives: WSLB, Ogdensburg. p. 1.
- ↑ "New York State Gazetteer". State of New York. 23 September 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2026.