Due to the focus on government, the law profession was a prominent occupation after the middle of the 19th century.

The night of December 6, 1859, John Brown's body lay there in state, with six local citizens, including Orlando Gibbons, as honor guard.

"An early county clerk" framed these words from John Brown's last speech: I say I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons.

[7]Elizabethtown is in the northern part of the town, located at the junction of US Route 9 and NY 9N.

The Boquet River (pronounced BO-kwet) flows past the east side of the hamlet.