Corinth is a town in Saratoga County, New York, United States. The population was 6,531 at the 2010 census. The town contains a village moreover named Corinth. The town is on the northeastern connect of the county, north of Saratoga Springs. The town is noted as “the snowshoe capital of the world” and is home to Palmer Falls where the Hudson River passes through the Palmertown Range.

Palmer Falls is an Place of whitewater waterfalls formerly known as “Kah-che-bon-cook”, “Hadley Falls”, “The Great Falls of the Hudson”, or “Palmer’s Great Falls”. The falls are now named after Beriah Palmer, who at one epoch owned home along both sides of the river by the falls.

Around 1763, after the French and Indian War, Ebenezer Jessup and his brother Edward from Luzerne began lumbering operations in the area. They floated rafts of logs the length of the Hudson and bypassed Palmer Falls by landing the rafts at a place called “Jessup’s Landing”, now the public seashore of the Village of Corinth, where they loaded the logs onto wagons and carted them in report to the falls. During the American Revolution the Jessups sided subsequently the Loyalists and fled to Canada, where they commanded a unit known as “Jessup’s Loyal Rangers”. For a long grow old the area was known as Jessup’s Landing. The first unshakable settlement in this area was in this area 1777, when Joseph Eggleston moved from Wilton to make off British raiders. John W. Taylor moved from Charlton to Jessup’s Landing around 1808 and helped organize the Town of Corinth in 1818.

Around 1790 Ambrose Clothier moved from Connecticut and built a cabin near Lake Bonita on Mount McGregor. He had three sons and three daughters, and everything his sons were noted fiddlers. The area around Beaver Brook near the Hudson is today known as “Clothier Hollow”.Other prematurely settlers in this area were Benjamin Ide, Jonathan Hodges, William Grippen, Lawrence Barber, Jonathan Barrass, and Hathaway Randall.