Chazy, NY

Chazy is a town in northeastern Clinton County, New York, United States. The 2020 census counted 4,096 residents. The closest city is Plattsburgh, 14 miles to the south. Chazy is 8 miles south of the Canada–United States border. This piece of land is home to four baseball/softball fields, multiple soccer fields, a small playground, and two covered pavilions. The arena is home to the Chazy Youth Hockey Flyers. Chazy is home to Chazy Central Rural School and to the William H. A newcomer can read Chazy through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places.

For a newcomer, Chazy comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The region was explored by Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer and navigator who mapped large portions of northeastern North America, in 1609. The town was first settled around 1763 by Jean Laframboise, who is also credited with introducing apple growing to the area. The eastern boundary of the town, in the center of the western channel of Lake Champlain, is the state border with Vermont.