Crown Point Reservation, SW of Lake Champlain Bridge and NY 8, Crown Point, New York. County/parish: Essex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 24, 1968. NRIS 68000033.
2 contributing buildings. 5 contributing sites. 1 contributing structure.Also known as:
Fort Crown Point was built by the combined efforts of British and Colonial troops from New York and the New England Colonies in 1759 at a narrows on Lake Champlain on the border between New York and Vermont. It was erected to secure the region against the French in upstate New York near the town of Crown Point, and it was the largest earthen fortress built in the American colonies. The fort's ruins are a National Historic Landmark administered as part of Crown Point State Historic Site.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315754