Windmill Point
Windmill Point is a cape in Grand Isle County, Northwest Vermont, Vermont. Windmill Point is situated nearby to the village Alburgh, as well as near the hamlet Coopersville.Places of Interest
Highlights include Windmill Point Light and Rouses Point station.
Windmill Point Light
Lighthouse
The Windmill Point Light in Vermont is the northernmost lighthouse on Lake Champlain. Extinguished for seventy years, it was reactivated in 2002 to replace the skeleton tower erected next to it.
Rouses Point station
Railway station
Photo: Adam Moss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rouses Point station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Rouses Point, New York, served by the single daily round trip of the Adirondack. The station building is a former Delaware and Hudson Railway constructed in 1889, with a one low-level side platform on the east side of the track.
Fort Montgomery
Fort
Photo: Mfwills, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Montgomery on Lake Champlain is the second of two United States forts built at the northernmost point of the United States part of the lake: a first, unnamed fort had been built on the same site in 1816 but had been disassembled after engineers realised they were building on Canadian territory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Champlain and Rouses Point and Alburgh.
Champlain and Rouses Point
Photo: RoyalbroilAlt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Champlain and Rouses Point are a pair of adjacent villages in Northern New York on the U.S.-Canada border. The villages, 20 miles north of Plattsburgh and 40 miles south of Montreal, are the northernmost in the state of New York.
Alburgh
Village
Photo: RoyalbroilAlt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alburgh is a village within the town of the same name in Grand Isle County, Vermont, United States. The population was 571 at the 2020 census. The town's name came from the person primarily responsible for chartering the community, Ira Allen.
East Alburg
Hamlet
East Alburgh is a populated place in Grand Isle County in the U.S. state of Vermont. It was formerly the location of the interchange between New England Central Railroad and Canadian National.
Windmill Point
- Type: Cape
- Also known as: “Point Algonquin”, “Pointe a la Algonquin”, and “Wind-mill Point”
- Category: landform
- Location: Grand Isle County, Northwest Vermont, Vermont, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.9813° or 44° 58′ 53″ northLongitude
-73.34159° or 73° 20′ 30″ westElevation
102 feet (31 metres)Open location code
87P8XMJ5+G9OpenStreetMap ID
node 9578947748OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
5243056
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