MALONE, N. Y., village, county-seat of Franklin County, on the Salmon River, and on the New York Central and the Rutland rail roads, about 275 miles north by west of Albany, and 12 miles from the boundary between the United States and Canada. It is situated at the northern foot-hills of the Adirondack Moun tains, in an agricultural region, the chief products of which are hops, hay and potatoes. The dairy products and poultry are important. The chief manufactures are paper, pulp, flour, lumber, leather, woolen goods, foundry and machine-shop products, sash, doors and blinds, men's clothing, cigars and dairy products. The electric-light and gas plants are owned by private companies, the waterworks by the village. The local lighting companies have harnessed the Salmon River eight miles south of Malone, and furnish an enormous supply of power. Malone is the commercial centre for the greater part of Franklin and parts of the adjacent counties, a section having a population of about 50,000. There are two national banks, six fine churches, a high school building (formerly Franklin Academy), several grammar and primary schools, a new federal post office and customs building, county courthouse,jail, a State armory, good hotels and several wholesale establishments. The educational institutions, besides the public schools, are a State School for Deaf-Mutes and Saint Joseph's Academy. There are three pub lic libraries; the Wead Library, 7,000 volumes, free to the people of the school district, is housed in a beautiful building donated by Mrs.
S. C. Wead; the Wadhams Library, 2,000 volumes, established and maintained by a literary society, free to all the people of the town of Malone (several school distncts), and the Franklin County Historical Society Library, es tablished in 1902. There is a well-kept park. The place was named in honor of Edmund Malone (q.v.), an Irish barrister and writer, by his friend William Constable, who, together with his wife, named many of the places located within the limits of the large tract of land in the northern part of New York known as °The Macomb Purchase." The first settlement was made in 1802, and its first inhabitants were mostly from Vermont and Ireland. In 1829-30 the people began considering the founding of an academy, and a number of the farmers pledged their farms as security for the pay ment of the debt incurred for the erection of the building, and Franklin Academy was es tablished in 1831. The Northern Railroad. now Rutland Railroad, entered the town in 1851, and the New York Central in 1892. Malone figured prominently in the War of 1812; and furnished a large number of soldiers, privates and officers, in the Civil War. The village was the scene of two Fenian (q.v.) gatherings. Pop. 6,500.