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Facts about the city

Schroon is a town in the Adirondack Park, in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,654 at the 2010 census. The largest community in town is the hamlet of Schroon Lake, located at the north end of the lake of the same name.The town of Schroon is in the southern part of Essex County and is north of Albany. The town contains two lakes: the northern two-thirds of 9-mile-long (14 km) Schroon Lake, and 5-mile-long (8 km) Paradox Lake. The two lakes are connected by the Schroon River, a south-flowing tributary of the Hudson River.

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History

Others believe it was named by French soldiers in honor of the Widow Scarron (Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon), previously the wife of noted French author and playwright Paul Scarron and subsequently the Madame de Maintenon and morganatic second wife of Louis XIV of France. The "Scaroons" is/are mentioned twice in The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, as a place seen by Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo), Chinachgook and Uncas after they had departed Horicon (the name used by Cooper for Lake George) while traveling northward chasing Magua and his two captives, Cora and Alice Munro. The Scaroon Manor was the site for the 1957 Warner Brothers movie "Marjorie Morningstar" which starred Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood and Ed Winn. The Town of Schroon was formed in 1804 from part of the Crown Point, New York of Crown Point. However, there is a claim that the town was occupied during the Thirteen Colonies Period as a French colony.

The official website for the city of Severance is http://www.schroon.net.