OGDENSBURG, a city of St. Lawrence county, New York, U.S.A., on the St. Lawrence river at the mouth of the Oswegatchie, 5o m. from Lake Ontario. It is served by the New York Central and the Rutland railways and lake and river steamers, and is connected by passenger and car ferry with the Canadian Pacific and the Grand Trunk railways at Prescott, Ontario, on the opposite bank of the St. Lawrence. Pop. (1920), 14,609 (8i% native white) ; Federal census 193o, 16,915. The city lies on high ground above the river, which is a mile wide here. It has a fine harbour, open throughout the year, and is an important shipping and trans fer point, especially for lumber, grain and coal. The traffic of the harbour in 1925 amounted to 660,121 tons by lake vessels and 906,480 tons by car-ferry. With the completion of the Welland canal in 193o it will be accessible to the largest lake vessels. Ogdensburg is a port of entry, headquarters of the St. Lawrence customs district, which in the fiscal year 1927-28 exported goods to the value of $78,196,568 and received imports valued at $137,751,982. In the same period 47,650 automobiles and 454,617 persons were transferred through the port. The city's manufac
tures (including silk, shade-rollers, paper and pulp) were valued in 1927 at $7,597,907. It is the seat of a State hospital for the insane; a State armory; and the Remington Art memorial, con taining the collection of Indian relics and many of the paintings and statuettes of Frederic Remington, who was born in Canton, the county seat. The Thousand islands of the St. Lawrence lie about 3o m. south-west. Ogdensburg was the site of the Indian settlement of La Presentation, founded in 1749 by the Abbe Francois Piquet for converted Iroquois, and of Ft. Presentation, built by the British at the outbreak of the Revolution and held by them until 1796. The settlement that grew up about the fort was named after Abraham Ogden (1743-98), a New Jersey lawyer who bought land here. During the early part of the War of 1812 it was an important point on the American line of defence, and on Feb. 22, 1813, both fort and village were captured and partly destroyed by the British. Ogdensburg was incorporated as a village in 1818 and as a city in 1868.