Fort Montgomery
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 technically building on Canadian territory.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Fort
- Description: fort
- Also known as: “Fort Blunder”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Rouses Point Bridge and Rouses Point station.
Rouses Point Bridge
Bridge
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The Rouses Point Bridge carries U.S. Route 2 across Lake Champlain at the point where the Richelieu River begins its trek north to the St. Lawrence Seaway. Rouses Point Bridge is situated 2,600 feet south of Fort Montgomery.
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. Rouses Point station is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Fort Montgomery.
Rouses Point Seaplane Base
Aerodrome
Rouses Point Seaplane Base is a public use seaplane base located on the Richelieu River in Rouses Point, a village in Clinton County, New York, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Champlain and Rouses Point and Alburgh.
Champlain and Rouses Point
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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
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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. Alburgh is situated 3 miles southeast of Fort Montgomery.
Noyan
Village
Photo: Pierre Bona, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Noyan is a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada, located in Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 1,418. Noyan is situated 5 miles northeast of Fort Montgomery.
Fort Montgomery
- Categories: tourism, historic site, and tourist attraction
- Location: Town of Champlain, Clinton, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
45.00604° or 45° 0′ 22″ northLongitude
-73.34889° or 73° 20′ 56″ westOpen location code
87Q82M42+CCOpenStreetMap ID
way 185378466OpenStreetMap feature
historic=fortOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=ruinsWikidata ID
Q742101
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Japanese—“Fort Montgomery” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Fort Montgomery”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن مونتجمرى”
- French: “fort Montgomery”
- French: “Fort Montgomery”
- German: “Fort Montgomery”
- Japanese: “ブランダー砦”
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Highlights include Montgomery Island and Rouses Point Trailway.
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