Norman Ridge is a community southeast of Vermontville named for the Norman family, who once worked extensive farms there. Norman Ridge Road runs along the ridge from New York Route 3 to the Fletcher Farm Road.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, May 23, 2020
[Howard Riley describes the Norman Ridge of his youth as follows:]
On Norman Ridge, if driving up from the Fletcher Farm Road, one would first come to Ray and Jeanette Laclair’s house and then John and Lucy Marten Norman’s, both on the left; then Adelaide and Peter VanCour’s on the right, and at the top of the hill was Walter and Mae Ward’s farm. Across the road was the Coslow farm; then down the road on the right was our farm, Dennis and Bessie Riley. Across from us was our great-uncle Tommy Keegan, later occupied by the the Earl Lawrence family. The Carney place, in the 1930s already empty, to the right of the road was where Beth and Ron Edgley’s mailbox is located, and then in the field to the left of the mailbox was the Oliver LaPradd farm. Across the road was Dave and Daisy Tucker’s home. Dave’s brothers Johnny and Bill lived with them. The last house and barn on the right as one heads down to Vermontville was later occupied by the same John and Lucy Norman (and their daughters Jean and Shirley), but I don’t remember who lived there before them.
From Mary Hotaling, May 26, 2020: In the 1980s I worked for Murray Heller at the now-defunct Center for Adirondack Studies at North Country Community College. Murray told me that Norman Ridge reminded his elderly immigrant father of the steppes of Russia.
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