Founded in 1937 by Emil R. Neuenfeldt and located on the bank of the Great Chazy River in Clinton County, NY Perry Mills Frog Farm supplied frogs to restaurants around the country and, increasingly as time went on, to hospitals and schools for laboratory and educational use.
Between 1937 and 1962, it was one of the largest industries in that village.
The Clinton County Historical Association will host a program on the Perry Mills Frog Farm, set for Tuesday, June 7th, at the House of Prayer in Plattsburgh.
This program will be led by Robert St. John, President of the Rouses Point-Champlain Historical Society who owns the former frog farm property and has stories to tell about how the frog farm came to be and how it operated.
The presentation will begin at 6 pm, and is free and open to the public. The House of Prayer is located at 63 Broad Street, Plattsburgh. For more information contact Helen Nerska, Director, at (518) 561-0340, or visit the Clinton County Historical Association website.
Poor frogs – eaten in restaurants, tortured in labs and sliced up by kids in school. And just what benefit did that provide? NONE.
God, I hope no horrors of any kind are done to the frogs today. They are more necessary to the environment than we ever knew.
Poor frogs – hacked in half while still alive for restaurant delicacy, tortured in labs and sliced up by kids in school — and for WHAT?
They are so much more important to their habitat than as an object of pointless torment. I hope none of that antiquated horror is being done to them today.